Unigine superposition: what is it and what functions does it have?

In the world of benchmarking there are many tools that can help us carry out our tasks and today we will teach you one more. Let's get to know Unigine Superposition, the latest benchmarking application created by Unigine . We will see what it is and how we can use it.

Index of contents

Unigine Superposition,

We have three different modes to launch the program and each one serves a different thing. For this reason, we will subdivide this point a little more so that you know better your individualities and purposes.

Benchmark

You have already had a first look at the ' Benchmark' section .

Here we have, once again, three modes of launching the program:

1. Performance VR Ready? (Virtual Reality) Stress (Stress / Stability)

The first option is a common benchmarking test. The computing power of the processor, the physics and polygons of different objects and other similar technologies will be tested. You may have already seen the test in some other video, since it is relatively popular.

The VR Ready section will do the same benchmark, but with the own configuration of a Virtual Reality system. On your screen you will see a slightly different and duplicated image, since it is designed for another platform.

Lastly, we have the stress option, but it doesn't make much sense for us to show it to you since it belongs to the advanced version. It is a test more focused on verifying that the processor, graphics and others perform well under large amounts of prolonged stress.

The tests will show the data in the upper right corner and the tests will be done on the same stage. In addition, before launching you can edit some values, but we believe that there is nothing relevant to highlight.

Practically, you will only have to look at whether or not your graph has enough VRAM for the test in question. In the case of the VR Ready test, you will have to specify on which Virtual Reality platform you want to test your team.

When you finish a benchmark you should see a window similar to the following:

On this last screen you can access the ranking of scores (Compare Results Online) , save the data (camera or Save) or publish your score. However, this last option will only be available if you are an advanced user, at least.

Game

The 'Game' section is something much more peculiar that other benchmarks do not offer us.

Here we physically enter the stage where the benchmark takes place and we can interact with the environment. It will be all guided so you know what things have special actions, but you can touch and use a large number of objects such as chalk or folders.

As a most interesting point, next to the central machine you will have several levers. Each of them controls a different value and we can change things like gravity or the time of day.

As for options, we will only have to indicate the average quality of the experience and the graphical API , although it should not change in almost anything. Quite simply, some charts have more affinity with one API than another.

Virtual reality

We certainly don't have much to say in this last section.

We missed that the rankings were open to all people. Of course, it would create a culture around achieving the highest position, like the one we can see in 3DMark . On the other hand, we would find it interesting that it had different scenarios for less powerful teams or for teams with Ray Tracing , for example.

But what about you, what do you think about the Unigine Superposition benchmark? Do you think it is a demanding enough test or do you think it should have a new update? Share your ideas in the comment box.

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