Benchmark

There are multiple ways to benchmark hardware, but this section focuses on two main areas: Graphics performance, which covers Vulkan and OpenGL, and FPS testing, which evaluates real-world game performance.

Graphics

Basemark GPU

Measures combined GPU performance across Vulkan and OpenGL workloads. Useful for comparing overall GPU capability across drivers and systems.

Install it by running yay -S basemark --noconfirm and run with basemark-gpu

Furmark

A synthetic stress test that pushes the GPU to maximum thermal and power limits. Primarily used for stability and cooling checks, not real-world performance.

Install it by running yay -S furmark --noconfirm and run with furmark

DANGER

As it is a stress test, Furmark may itself cause system stability issues. While most modern GPUs will throttle themselves if approaching hardware thermal maximums, in rare cases - especially if a card has inadequate or faulty cooling - hardware damage may result.

vkmark

A focused Vulkan benchmark suite that tests driver efficiency and Vulkan rendering performance under standardized scenes.

Install it by running sudo pacman -S vkmark --noconfirm and run with vkmark

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Game Benchmarking/FPS testing

Mangohud

Displays real-time performance metrics while gaming, including:

• FPS
• Frametime
• CPU/GPU usage
• Temperatures
• Power draw

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Running MangoHud

• Install it by running sudo pacman -S mangohud --noconfirm

• If you wanna use mangohud for 32bit games enable multilib repo and run yay -S lib32-mangohud --noconfirm.

For running a game with mangohud outside launchers like steam is done by running:

mangohud *game*

• For running a game and combining mangohud and gamemode run mangohud gamemoderun *game*

• If you wanna run mangohud inside a steam game you can by using this launch flag:

mangohud %command%

• For running a game and combining mangohud and gamemode run mangohud gamemoderun %command%

• And for vulkan games you just do MANGOHUD=1 *game*

Steam Overlay

Steam Overlay can be used as a alternative to mangohud and has uses like showing the difference beetween actual rendered frames and generated one.

You can turn on Steam overlay by going to Steam settings → "In-Game" and selecting your preferred corner position. The overlay will then appear in your chosen corner while playing games.