Unigine Tropics

This test calculates the average frame-rate within the Tropics / Islands demo for the Unigine engine. This engine is very demanding on the system's graphics card.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark unigine-tropics.

Project Site

unigine.com

Test Created

6 December 2010

Last Updated

27 February 2018

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Graphics

Average Install Time

1 Second

Average Run Time

10 Minutes, 25 Seconds

Test Dependencies

32-bit Compatibility Libraries

Accolades

200k+ Downloads

Supported Platforms

Supported Architectures

x86 + x86_64

* Uploading of benchmark result data to OpenBenchmarking.org is always optional (opt-in) via the Phoronix Test Suite for users wishing to share their results publicly.
** Data based on those opting to upload their test results to OpenBenchmarking.org and users enabling the opt-in anonymous statistics reporting while running benchmarks from an Internet-connected platform.
*** Test profile page view reporting began March 2021.
Data updated weekly as of 19 February 2025.

Revision History

pts/unigine-tropics-1.6.4 [View Source] Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:39:33 GMT
Update download links, windows updates.

pts/unigine-tropics-1.6.3 [View Source] Tue, 05 Jul 2016 11:27:32 GMT
Add RELEASE define

pts/unigine-tropics-1.6.2 [View Source] Sun, 22 Feb 2015 08:38:03 GMT
Fullscreen switching fix.

pts/unigine-tropics-1.6.1 [View Source] Thu, 29 Jan 2015 22:34:13 GMT
Add --nox11 and fix in install.sh

pts/unigine-tropics-1.6.0 [View Source] Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:36:39 GMT
Add windowed mode

pts/unigine-tropics-1.5.3 [View Source] Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:03:08 GMT
Update download links for Unigine Tropics.

pts/unigine-tropics-1.5.2 [View Source] Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:41:03 GMT
Update download link for Windows Unigien Tropics.

pts/unigine-tropics-1.5.1 [View Source] Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:39:49 GMT
Update download links for Unigine Tropics 1.3.

pts/unigine-tropics-1.5.0 [View Source] Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:26:16 GMT
Initial import into OpenBenchmarking.org

Suites Using This Test

OpenGL Demos Test Suite

Unigine Test Suite

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

Unigine Tropics 1.3

Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 695 public results since 23 January 2015 with the latest data as of 12 February 2025.

Below is an overview of the generalized performance for components where there is sufficient statistically significant data based upon user-uploaded results. It is important to keep in mind particularly in the Linux/open-source space there can be vastly different OS configurations, with this overview intended to offer just general guidance as to the performance expectations.

Component

Percentile Rank

# Compatible Public Results

Frames Per Second (Average)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

100th

408 ^{+/- 5}

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

99th

405 ^{+/- 3}

Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 6800

98th

397 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

96th

365 ^{+/- 37}

MSI NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

96th

361 ^{+/- 21}

eVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

94th

331 ^{+/- 20}

MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

91st

306 ^{+/- 24}

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

88th

270 ^{+/- 12}

MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

82nd

233 ^{+/- 2}

Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

82nd

233 ^{+/- 6}

MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

80th

221 ^{+/- 1}

ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

78th

213 ^{+/- 23}

Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

76th

196 ^{+/- 2}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 191

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

61st

114 ^{+/- 8}

ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7800

59th

107 ^{+/- 10}

XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950

58th

103 ^{+/- 8}

Gigabyte AMD Radeon R9 270X

53rd

95 ^{+/- 13}

MSI AMD Radeon R9 270

53rd

93 ^{+/- 5}

Median

50th

MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

47th

Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6950

44th

77 ^{+/- 6}

Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5000

43rd

75 ^{+/- 3}

Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

40th

73 ^{+/- 4}

Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870

38th

72 ^{+/- 3}

eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

31st

55 ^{+/- 5}

AMD FirePro V7900

31st

55 ^{+/- 5}

Intel HD 4600

30th

47 ^{+/- 2}

Low-Tier

25th

< 39

AMD Radeon HD 5750

19th

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

19th

30 ^{+/- 3}

Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6570

11th

20 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Radeon HD 7700

8th

Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GT 610

4th

eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

4th

HIS AMD Radeon HD 6450

3rd

Detailed Performance Overview

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Unigine Tropics 1.3 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen) has an average run-time of 11 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 3 times but may increase if the standard deviation exceeds pre-defined defaults or other calculations deem additional runs necessary for greater statistical accuracy of the result.

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 0.1%.

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Notable instruction set extensions supported by this test, based on an automatic analysis by the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org analytics engine.

Instruction Set

Support

Instructions Detected

SSE3 (SSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

HADDPS

Last automated analysis: 18 January 2022

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libm.so.6, libc.so.6.

Tested CPU Architectures

This benchmark has been successfully tested on the below mentioned architectures. The CPU architectures listed is where successful OpenBenchmarking.org result uploads occurred, namely for helping to determine if a given test is compatible with various alternative CPU architectures.

CPU Architecture

Kernel Identifier

Verified On

Intel / AMD x86 64-bit

x86_64

(Many Processors)

Intel / AMD x86 32-bit

i686