Unigine Heaven 2.0 Linux Performance

[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.

[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 .

[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