A New HDR Benchmark Is Coming To Linux

While I am technically away on a sabbatical that is focused on providing support for Microsoft Windows in the Phoronix Test Suite, which will make PTS the first full-featured, open-source testing framework that is compatible with Linux / BSD / OpenSolaris / OS X / Windows operating systems and its numerous test profiles, work on a new benchmark has also commenced.

This new benchmark, which can be found in the Phoronix Test Suite once its released, will focus on SDR/HDR performance. This should end up being a rather nice test profile as right now it's completely slaughtering the ASUS Eee PC 1201N and other systems being tested remotely through Phoromatic.

This test is multi-threaded and multi-platform, which makes it all the more exciting. Below are a few of the rendered visuals from this benchmark, which are based on Berlin's Olympiastadion. More details to come on this test along with the emerging Windows support.