Disable vertical sync for glxgears
The vblank_mode environment variable does the trick. You should then get several hundreds FPS on modern hardware. And you are now able to compare the results with others. $> vblank_mode=0 glxgears
The vblank_mode environment variable does the trick. You should then get several hundreds FPS on modern hardware. And you are now able to compare the results with others. $> vblank_mode=0 glxgears