Unreal Engine 4 Linux Tests With AMD & NVIDIA Graphics Drivers

The Unreal Engine 4 demos incorporated into test profiles on OpenBenchmarking.org are currently Atlantis, Elemental, Matinee Fight Scene, and Landscape Mountains. As more interesting UE4 demos come about and ultimately UE4 Linux games, we'll continue adding more tests as long as they continue to meet our requirements for automation and reproducibility.

Beyond looking at FPS and frame time information, the Phoronix Test Suite also monitored the GPU temperatures and AC system power consumption (using a WattsUp Pro power meter) during testing to provide some performance-per-Watt data too. All of the benchmarking was fully-automated and can be done in a manner as simple as installing the Phoronix Test Suite on the distribution of your choice and then running a command like MONITOR=gpu.temp phoronix-test-suite benchmark ue4. For this article, Unreal Engine 4's OpenGL 3.2 mode was used rather than the optional OpenGL 4 renderer.

For those curious about Unreal Engine 4 on the open-source Mesa/Gallium3D drivers, that testing will come in another Phoronix article shortly. Before getting to the results, if you appreciate the Linux hardware testing done pretty much exclusively at Phoronix.com, please consider subscribing to Phoronix Premium to help support these options. Subscribing allows you to access the site ad-free, view large articles such as this one on a single page, and it goes to support all of the involved testing, hardware expenditures, server costs, and the manual work involved that's done near single-handedly by yours truly. Thanks for your support and sharing this article via Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.