benchmarks.md

Benchmarks

Since the raison d'etre of OpenGL is to have high performance, you will want to know how your application performs compared to some standardized benchmarks.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/31913/how-to-perform-a-detailed-and-quick-3d-performance-test

Free:

• glxgears. es2gears from Ubuntu 16.04 mesa-utils-extra is an GLES2 implementation. Disable vsync: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17196117/disable-vertical-sync-for-glxgears
• glmark2. Maintained by Linaro. TODO how is the score calculated? glmark2/glmark2#31
• phoronix-test-suite. Usage: http://askubuntu.com/questions/31913/how-to-perform-a-detailed-and-quick-3d-performance-test/820264#820264

Non free:

• GFXBench: https://gfxbench.com/result.jsp By a company called Koshonti. You can run it for free on most devices, but they license the source (and TODO more complete versions?) to companies as a business model.