Unigine Heaven 2.0 Linux Performance

[bridgman]

The fact that we could reproduce the bug in house made a big difference too... makes it a heck of a lot easier to fix

[monraaf]

there is some problems right now particularly on the ATI/AMD side with this demanding Unigine demo. From the Radeon HD 5000 "Evergreen" graphics cards that we have tested, all that is displayed using the Catalyst 10.4 drivers found in Ubuntu 10.04 are psychedelic colors.

So I filled a bug report about this and they say they are going to fix it "as soon as possible". We'll have to wait and see. But I'm quite surprised by this prompt response. I wonder if the fact that the bug was being spelled out in this Phoronix article has anything to do with it .

[b15hop]

Unigine

Heaven Benchmark v2.0 (Arch 64)

• FPS:41.0
• Scores:1033
• Min FPS:25.8
• Max FPS:76.9

Hardware

• Binary:Linux 64bit GCC 4.3.2 Release Mar 21 2010
• Operating system:Linux 2.6.32-ARCH x86_64
• CPU model:AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor
• CPU flags:3220MHz MMX+ 3DNow!+ SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSE4A HTT
• GPU model:GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+ PCI Express 190.53 1024Mb

Settings

• Render: Opengl
• Mode:1280x1024 fullscreen
• Shaders:high
• Textures:high
• Filter:trilinear
• Anisotropy:16x
• Occlusion:enabled
• Refraction:enabled
• Volumetric:enabled
• Replication:disabled
• Tessellation:disabled

Heaven Benchmark v2.0 (win7 x64)

• FPS:38.9
• Scores:980
• Min FPS:6.3
• Max FPS:80.2

Hardware

• Binary:Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release Mar 7 2010
• Operating system:Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
• CPU model:AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor
• CPU flags:3220MHz MMX+ 3DNow!+ SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSE4A HTT
• GPU model:NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+ 8.17.11.9621 1024Mb

Settings

• Render: Opengl
• Mode:1280x1024 fullscreen
• Shaders:high
• Textures:high
• Filter:trilinear
• Anisotropy:16x
• Occlusion:enabled
• Refraction:enabled
• Volumetric:enabled
• Replication:disabled
• Tessellation:disabled

I tried to do apples to apples comparison. Dx10 in win7 x64 is faster and scores a higher score, but only due to peak fps. Avg fps is still slower and there is much more micro stutter in win7. Not to mention min fps in win7 is 6 fps for dx10 and dx 11.

[tmpdir]

This drop in performance seems to be only effecting the ATI cards. On Nvidia cards the performance is almost identical.

http://techgage.com/article/unigines...linux_support/

Not bad... much better than I expected.

[spiridow]

Hi,

I did some benchmarking

Config:
GTX 285 1GB
QX9650 @ 3 GHz
Archlinux 64bit

Tested at:
1024x768, window
1280x720, window, 8xAA
1280x1024, fullscreen, 8xAA
1920x1200, fullscreen
1920x1200, fullscreen, 2xAA
1920x1200, fullscreen, 4xAA
3840x1200, fullscreen

Screenshots below:
1024x768, window


1280x720, window, 8xAA


1280x1024, fullscreen, 8xAA


1920x1200, fullscreen


1920x1200, fullscreen, 2xAA


1920x1200, fullscreen, 4xAA


3840x1200, fullscreen

[deanjo]

why is windows faster?????

This drop in performance seems to be only effecting the ATI cards. On Nvidia cards the performance is almost identical.

http://techgage.com/article/unigines_heaven_20_benchmark_introduces_linux_support/

[Melcar]

My Windows install is a bit "fresher" than my Ubuntu install, since I rarely touch it these days. That could be causing the slow numbers. Also, on Ubuntu the demo does tend to run a little choppy at times while on W7 it's "smooth" for most of the time.

[Kano]

64 bit does not help much, at max i saw a diff of 0.5 fps in the minimum fps. Too low to really gain something visable.

[Melcar]

[V!NCENT]

I got about 16 fps on a HD3870(fglrx) on standard settings. I'm more interested in the difference between Windows and Linux. I couldn't test on my windows partition as the stupid thing has de-registered because of a HD ID change and couldn't get internet and serial to work.

On KDE the desktop messed up after exiting the demo. Fonts small and plasmoid-panels where changed. I have my desktop icons in a folder-view so I guess they would have been messed up too if they were placed at set positions on a desktop-view based desktop.

Go to the KDE settings app and change the resolution back and forth