vkmark - Vulkan benchmark suite

       vkmark was written by Alexandros Frantzis

vkmark 2025.01                                    January 2025                                         vkmark(1)

       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. To get the available scenes
       and their acceptable options you can use the -l, --list-scenes command line option.

       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 by using the  -b,  --benchmark  command  line  option  (possibly  multiple
       times).   If  no  benchmarks are specified, a default set of benchmarks is used. If a benchmark option is
       not specified it assumes its default value (listed with -l, --list-scenes).

       As a special case, a benchmark description string is allowed to not contain a scene name (i.e.  to  start
       with  ':').  In  this  case,  any  specified  option values are used as the default values for benchmarks
       following this description string.

vkmark is an extensible Vulkan benchmarking suite with targeted, configurable scenes.

       To run the default benchmarks:

              vkmark

       To run a benchmark using scene 'vertex' with a 'duration'  of  '5.0'  seconds  and  'interleave'  set  to
       'false':

              vkmark-bvertex:duration=5.0:interleave=false

       To run a series of benchmarks use the -b, --benchmark command line option multiple times:

              vkmark-bvertex:duration=5.0-bclear:color=1.0,0.5,0-bcube

       To set default option values for benchmarks and run them:

              vkmark-b:duration=2.0-bvertex-bclear-b:duration=5.0-bcube

       To set default option values for the default benchmarks and run them:

              vkmark-b:duration=2.0

       vkmark - Vulkan benchmark suite

-b, --benchmark BENCH
              A benchmark to run: 'scene(:opt1=val1)*' (the option can be used multiple times)

       -s, --size WxH
              Size of the output window (default: 800x600)

       --fullscreen
              Run in fullscreen mode (equivalent to --size -1x-1)

       -p, --present-mode PM
              Vulkan present mode (default: mailbox) [immediate, mailbox, fifo, fiforelaxed]

       --pixel-format PF
              Vulkan pixel format (default: choose best)

       -l, --list-scenes
              Display information about the available scenes and their options

       --show-all-options
              Show  all  scene  option  values  used  for  benchmarks  (only explicitly set options are shown by
              default)

       --winsys-dir DIR
              Directory to search in for window system plugins

       --data-dir DIR
              Directory to search in for scene data files

       --winsys WS
              Window system plugin to use (default: choose best) [xcb, wayland, kms]

       --winsys-options OPTS
              Window system options as 'opt1=val1(:opt2=val2)*'

       --run-forever
              Run indefinitely, looping from the last benchmark back to the first

       -d, --debug
              Display debug messages

       -D, --use-device
              Use Vulkan device with specified UUID

       -L, --list-devices
              List Vulkan devices

       -h, --help
              Display help

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