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.
Read more at Phoronix.
Going Beyond Just Measuring Frame Rates
Posted on Thursday, November 19 2009 @ 6:19 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck