{"id":47532,"date":"2024-11-13T16:21:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=47532"},"modified":"2025-05-10T12:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T12:04:57","slug":"benchmark-stress-test-gpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2024\/11\/benchmark-stress-test-gpu\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Apps to Benchmark or Stress Test Your GPU in Ubuntu Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Want to do performance test on your graphics card? Here I’m going to introduce some for you that work on Linux desktop.<\/p>\n

Benchmark or stress test is a way to measure your hardware performance, tell if it’s working the way it should be, and compare with other devices.<\/p>\n

When you got a new device, installed new drivers, or changed some configuration options, you may do the performance test on the device. And, here are some tools for benchmarking GPU in Linux.<\/p>\n

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1. FurMark<\/h3>\n

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FurMark, aka GPU Burner, is a popular free application to do OpenGL and Vulkan stress-test and benchmark for GPUs.<\/p>\n

It provides a scene that a big donut is falling infinitely, that can stress test or benchmark your GPU with either OpenGL or Vulkan API. And, it supports screen resolutions ranging from 400×300 to 7680×4320.<\/p>\n

As well, it supports uploading the your test results to a online database, though optional. There (click “Scores” in bottom of app window) you can compare to other GPUs by viewing their scores.<\/p>\n

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Get FurMark<\/h4>\n

FurMark is available for Linux as 7zip package via the link button below:<\/p>\n

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Download FurMark<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It’s a portable non-install package. Just download it, extract and navigate to the app folder, finally double-click run “FurMark_GUI” file to launch it.<\/p>\n

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2. GpuTest (FurMark 1)<\/h3>\n

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If you would like to perform the test with the classic FurMark 1, then GpuTest is available for choice. It’s very old (last updated in 2014), though still works in my case in Ubuntu 24.04 with little modify on the python script.<\/p>\n

Besides FurMark 1 scene, it also supports cool TessMark, GiMark, PixMark Julia, PixMark Piano, PixMark Voloplosion, and Plot3D animations. Also, it has a online scores<\/a> platform. However, only OpenGL graphics API is support.<\/p>\n

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GpuTest app window<\/p><\/div>\n

Get GpuTest<\/h4>\n

GpuTest is available to download via the link below:<\/p>\n

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Download GpuTest<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Linux users can go to this page<\/a> directly for the download link.<\/p>\n

As mentioned, the Python script for launching the GUI is outdated. You have to do following steps one by one to make it work Ubuntu 24.04<\/b>.<\/p>\n