On Sun Feb 22, 2026 at 12:44:27PM -0800, Thomas Frohwein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please find attached the port of vkmark, a 3D benchmark in the vein of
> the venerable glmark2, but for vulkan. It is used on Linux and there is
> also a port on FreeBSD. Having this will help measure our GPU
> performance.
>
> The GH homepage [1] shows some examples for how to run it with
> different options. There is some data on openbenchmarking.org [2] that
> could be carefully used for comparison (their version seems a few
> years old now). I also found a little post on the background behind
> this project at [3].
>
> I ran the default (just `vkmark`) on my desktop PC with Radeon RX 6700
> XT and got a score of 10714.
>
> DESCR:
> vkmark is an extensible Vulkan benchmarking suite with targeted,
> configurable scenes. vkmark offers a suite of scenes that can be used to
> measure various aspects of Vulkan performance. The way in which each
> scene is rendered is configurable through a set of options. In vkmark, a
> benchmark is defined as a scene plus a set of option values. You can
> specify the list and order of the benchmarks to run.
>
> ok to import?
>
> [1] https://github.com/vkmark/vkmark
> [2] https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/vkmark
> [3]
> https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2017/07/18/vkmark-more-than-a-vulkan-benchmark/
Does not build for me:
FAILED: src/libvkmark-core.a.p/vulkan_state.cpp.o
c++ -Isrc/libvkmark-core.a.p -Isrc -I../vkmark-2025.01/src -I/usr/local/include
-fdiagnostics-color=always -D_LIBCPP_HARDENING_MODE=_LIBCPP_HARDENING_MODE_FAST
-D_FILE_OFFS
ET_BITS=64 -Wall -Winvalid-pch -std=c++17
'-DVKMARK_WINDOW_SYSTEM_DIR="/usr/local/lib/vkmark"'
'-DVKMARK_DATA_DIR="/usr/local/share/vkmark"' '-DVKMARK_VERSION_STR="2025.01"
' -O2 -pipe -fPIC -MD -MQ src/libvkmark-core.a.p/vulkan_state.cpp.o -MF
src/libvkmark-core.a.p/vulkan_state.cpp.o.d -o
src/libvkmark-core.a.p/vulkan_state.cpp.o -c ../vkmar
k-2025.01/src/vulkan_state.cpp
../vkmark-2025.01/src/vulkan_state.cpp:203:14: warning: 'setPfnUserCallback' is
deprecated: This setter is deprecated. Use the one taking a function pointer
type from the v
k-namespace instead. [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
203 | .setPfnUserCallback(debug_callback);
| ^
/usr/local/include/vulkan/vulkan_structs.hpp:32329:5: note:
'setPfnUserCallback' has been explicitly marked deprecated here
32329 | VULKAN_HPP_DEPRECATED( "This setter is deprecated. Use the one
taking a function pointer type from the vk-namespace instead." )
| ^
/usr/local/include/vulkan/vulkan_hpp_macros.hpp:213:42: note: expanded from
macro 'VULKAN_HPP_DEPRECATED'
213 | # define VULKAN_HPP_DEPRECATED( msg ) [[deprecated( msg )]]
| ^
../vkmark-2025.01/src/vulkan_state.cpp:207:24: error: no matching member
function for call to 'createDebugUtilsMessengerEXT'
207 | instance().createDebugUtilsMessengerEXT(debug_create_info,
nullptr, dud),
| ~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/local/include/vulkan/vulkan_funcs.hpp:16273:59: note: candidate function
template not viable: no known conversion from 'const
DebugUtilsMessengerCreateInfoEXT' to 'con
st DebugUtilsMessengerCreateInfoEXT *' for 1st argument; take the address of
the argument with &
16273 | VULKAN_HPP_NODISCARD VULKAN_HPP_INLINE Result
Instance::createDebugUtilsMessengerEXT( const DebugUtilsMessengerCreateInfoEXT
* pCreateInfo,
| ^
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/local/include/vulkan/vulkan_funcs.hpp:16289:107: note: candidate template
ignored: requirement 'detail::isDispatchLoader<(anonymous
namespace)::DebugUtilsDispatcher>::
value' was not satisfied [with Dispatch = DebugUtilsDispatcher]
16289 | VULKAN_HPP_NODISCARD VULKAN_HPP_INLINE typename
ResultValueType<DebugUtilsMessengerEXT>::type
Instance::createDebugUtilsMessengerEXT(
|
^
1 warning and 1 error generated.
