Code review comment for lp:~wenchien/checkbox/3d_benchmark

Hello,

Apologies, but as previous comments have mentioned, glxgears is not recommended as a benchmark, this is documented in many places, a couple of which are:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Benchmarking#glxgears_.28and_why_not_to_use_this_as_a_benchmark.29

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Glxgears_is_not_a_Benchmark

Checkbox has two existing 3d benchmarks: glmark (with a glmark-es variant) and globs. Both are more thorough than glxgears, however both are really easy for any modern GPU (i.e. even a built-in Intel GPU can blaze through these benchmarks).

Unfortunately the phoronix/unigine combo seems to be the best available benchmark, but it has licensing and installation issues that make it a bit cumbersome to use.

Regardless, since glxgears has little value as a benchmark, I have to reject this proposal, however if you need benchmarking I suggest you use one of the existing tests.

Thanks for your contribution and again, apologies for being unable to accept this in checkbox.