Running 3DMark on Steam Deck

[blejd]

I got 3DMark running on the Steam Deck (SteamOS via Proton). For anyone interested here's how:
• set compatibility tool to Proton Experimental or GE-Proton7-x
• to fix the white/blank UI, set launch options to:
%command% --use-gl=osmesa
• run it once, it will start in a demo mode, exit
• to use the full version, copy your CD-key and add it manually to /Deck/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/223850/pfx/user.reg, paste the following after the line #arch=win64:

[Software\\UL\\3DMark] 1660394462
#time=1d8af11f2c170ae
"KeyCode"="3DM-your-key-goes-here"

I was able to run Fire Strike, but not much else. For example Wild Life fails with:
An error occured.
Request not supported. : 'Z:\Deck\home\deck\.local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\3DMark\dlc\wild-life-test\'

As for the results, here are Steam Deck's scores in Fire Strike:
Fire Strike score: 3029
Graphics: 3490
Physics: 10809
Combined: 987 (I suspect it quit early)

[UL_Jarnis]

No, the test did not quit early. If Combined Test had stopped early, score would be 0.

And nice to hear you could get it to run, but caveat is that this is unsupported.

[Migz - DH]

Mmm. I hope that since that hardware is unsupported, those numbers don't really represent the hardware's capabilities.

[UL_Jarnis]

Well, if you compare to 6800U with Radeon 680M, that has Fire Strike GPU score of 6600 on average. It has 12 CUs (RDNA2) and higher TDP. Compared to that, Fire Strike GPU score of 3490 on unmodified Steam deck sounds plausible. I'm sure there is some overhead due to Proton and if Windows were to be installed, it might score slightly better, but purely going by the CU count and architecture, I doubt you can get substantially more than 4500 in Fire Strike GPU score out of this hardware unless you modify the cooling considerably. It is a low TDP, very small form factor device and physics says there is only so much you can do with cooling like that.

(note that I talked purely about the GPU score, not overall score. far too many factors go to the overall score to make similar comparison and the CPU side of Steam deck is bit less well known)

[blejd]

How much work would it be to support Proton? It seems this close 🤏 to running well and 3DMark has always been my go to benchmark for comparing hardware.

btw. here are native Windows results from someone running 3DMark on the Deck: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/tbg13p/comment/i0716lp/?context=3

Fire Strike: 4389
Graphics Score: 4897
Physics Score: 10859
Combined: 1644

Can't verify the results myself, but I find the large difference surprising. Proton creates very little performance penalty in most games and some games even run faster than on Windows (Control for instance). When I run Fire Strike on my laptop with an RTX 2070, the difference between Windows and Linux/Proton GPU score is negligible (16217 vs 16254).

[alenjenny]

Originally posted by blejd:

I got 3DMark running on the Steam Deck (SteamOS via Proton). For anyone interested here's how:
• set compatibility tool to Proton Experimental or GE-Proton7-x
• to fix the white/blank UI, set launch options to:
%command% --use-gl=osmesa
• run it once, it will start in a demo mode, exit
• to use the full version, copy your CD-key and add it manually to /Deck/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/223850/pfx/user.reg, paste the following after the line #arch=win64:

[Software\\UL\\3DMark] 1660394462
#time=1d8af11f2c170ae
"KeyCode"="3DM-your-key-goes-here"

I was able to run Fire Strike, but not much else. For example Wild Life fails with:
An error occured.
Request not supported. : 'Z:\Deck\home\deck\.local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\3DMark\dlc\wild-life-test\'

As for the results, here are Steam Deck's scores in Fire Strike:
Fire Strike score: 3029
Graphics: 3490
Physics: 10809
Combined: 987 (I suspect it quit early)

Here's an odd question: were you able to unlock the "Mystery Machine" achievement after running the test on the Steam Deck? The description says "Submit a result using new hardware that isn't recognised by 3DMark" and I've been trying to unlock that for years but simply have no means to do so.

And how about "Integration Nation" (Run a DirectX 12 graphics benchmark using integrated graphics)?

Thanks in advance!

[blejd]

Nope.

People were running 3dmark on the Deck on Windows, so I guess it's not a mystery machine. You could probably get this by spoofing your hardware IDs, but at that point, you could just spoof the achievement.

The second one might also be achievable by instaling Windows on the Deck or just using any recent-ish laptop.

[Mad B]

Managed to run it too. Here are my scores for comparison.
Fire strike: 2991
Graphic: 3441
Physics: 10509
Combined: 980

Mine physics score is lower by 300 for some reason. Did you also tinker with your clock settings?

[`rotane]

FYI, just tried the demo with Proton Experimental:
Fire Strike score: 3098
Graphics: 3597
Physics: 10810
Combined: 996

Didn't tinker with the Deck clocks at all.