RhodiumLC: Pixel Shader GPU Benchmark (OpenGL)

Here is a GPU benchmark I created for the review of MSI’s Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost graphics card. I wanted a new 100% pixel shader benchmark to compare the raw processing power of recent GPUs. I also wanted to control it via the command line. At the end of 2016 I ported to GeeXLab this shadertoy demo. This demo is perfect: it’s reasonably GPU intensive and it’s nice to watch (especially on a big screen!).

Update (2020.01.21):
RhodiumLC 0.1.2 has been released for Windows 64-bit platform.

Update (2018.04.03):
The Linux 64-bit and macOS versions of RhodiumLC have been released.

 
You can download the RhodiumLC benchmark for Windows, Linux and macOS from the following links:

RhodiumLC 0.1.2 (Windows 64-bit – ZIP archive)   RhodiumLC 0.1.1 (Linux 64-bit – ZIP archive)   RhodiumLC 0.1.1 (macOS – ZIP archive)

To ensure the integrity of your download, you can verify the following checksum values:
RhodiumLC_0.1.2_win64.zip hash codes:
- file size => 7447299 bytes
- MD5       => c0f271b333f07b5410c6deed6ab17f70
- SHA1      => 806468dc158115ad5705327fd71ae808e6d85ca5
- SHA256    => 8f92f0f1d1ad6c173074f92be369c677fbf2e703217ff5effb005a59417ab101

RhodiumLC_linux64_0.1.1.zip hash codes:
- File size: 6.40 MB (6708710 bytes)
- MD5: 814ab747c2b4091e194e843c54d3c76b
- SHA1: 17a7155d1ebe90ec4b2ec936cc6fc19d6c3933ff
- SHA256: 0fa7d533c2d7880b016f823dfadd3714d89a87bce3f3931be3c17d9e9c95da01

RhodiumLC_osx_0.1.1.zip hash codes:
- File size: 6.94 MB (7274723 bytes)
- MD5: 8a0a9823b685d0368c8c71a9982e22a8
- SHA1: 91ae344820fddc4701babf3319ab697780fdb252
- SHA256: 024c65fed66d049de97facb7061c8aa2c87d3e1033334d47f6a7050a42e51aef

I will release RhodiumLC for other platforms (Linux, macOS, and SBCs like the Tinker Board) as soon as possible.

For any feedback or bug-report, a thread is available HERE.

 
How to run the benchmark?

Unzip the archive where you want. RhodiumLC comes with three batch files for common screen resolutions: _run_benchmark_p1080.bat (for 1920×1080 monitors), _run_benchmark_p1440.bat (for 2560×1440 monitors) and _run_benchmark_p2160.bat (for 3840×2160 monitors). Run any of these batch files. The benchmark lasts 60 seconds. At the end of the benchmark, the score is written in the _geexlab_scores.csv file. If you need to support other resolutions, just edit one of the batch files and change the resolution.

Here are some scores:

P1080 (1920×1080)

3747 (avg FPS: 62) – GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 XTREME GAMING – R390.65

2860 (avg FPS: 47) – EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW – R390.65

2606 (avg FPS: 43) – MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost – Adrenalin 18.1.1

1931 (avg FPS: 32) – EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC – R390.65

1414 (avg FPS: 23) – MSI Radeon R9 290X – Adrenalin 18.1.1

1187 (avg FPS: 19) – MSI Radeon RX 470 – Adrenalin 18.1.1

 

P2160 (3840×2160)

962 (avg FPS: 16) – GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 XTREME GAMING – R390.65

736 (avg FPS: 12) – EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW – R390.65

663 (avg FPS: 11) – MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost – Adrenalin 18.1.1

497 (avg FPS: 8) – EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC – R390.65

325 (avg FPS: 5) – MSI Radeon R9 290X – Adrenalin 18.1.1

303 (avg FPS: 5) – MSI Radeon RX 470 – Adrenalin 18.1.1

 
Credits:

The original Rhodium Liquid Carbon pixel shader has been written by Virgill and is used in this 4k intro:

 
Changelog:

Version 0.1.2 - 2020.01.21
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! [WINDOWS] updated with latest GeeXLab 0.29.12.0 binaries.

Version 0.1.1 - 2018.04.03
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! [WINDOWS] updated with latest GeeXLab binaries.
+ added macOS version
+ added Linux 64-bit version

Version 0.1.0 - 2018.01.26
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. initial release - Windows 64-bit only