Going Beyond Just Measuring Frame Rates

news · November 18, 2009

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your

site's news section would be greatly appreciated.

Title: Going Beyond Just Measuring Frame Rates ( -at -) Phoronix

Summary: "Yesterday marked the release of Phoronix Test Suite 2.2 and it

was the best version yet with the addition of many new exciting and

useful features. While this release was gratifying, there are much

greater plans for the Phoronix Test Suite going into the next decade. It

has already been shared that Windows support is coming, but there are

other huge features coming too as soon as Q1'2010. Up to this point,

most of the tests and the design of pts-core (the Phoronix Test Suite

engine) have been focused on quantitative benchmarks with many of the

tests spitting out a frame-rate, time, or some other measurement.

However, now being supported in the Phoronix Test Suite is the ability

to produce abstract results, such as screenshots used for image quality

comparisons. The Phoronix Test Suite can now track the image quality of

various test profiles (such as OpenGL games) across hardware

configurations, drivers, and more. All of this is still leveraged upon

the existing Phoronix Test Suite framework and our design philosophies

so that even image quality comparisons can be carried out autonomously,

the ability to compare many results side-by-side, support for carrying

out these tests remotely via Phoromatic, and the ability to share your

abstract results with others via Phoronix Global. Now not only can you

be sure you are satisfied with the quantitative frame-rate of the

hardware you have -- or are about to purchase -- but you have a plethora

of options for looking at the qualitative performance too."

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