Evolve captures a wide number of separate metrics in order to evaluate the performance of your GPU. The metrics are categorized into scores. The exact scores being captured depend on the capabilities of your device and the type of benchmark run. The following scores can be produced:

• Raytracing   (Not included unless “Mode” is set to pipeline or inline)
• Rasterization  ( Not included unless “Mode” is set to pipeline or inline.  Not included unless “Renderer” is set to “Hybrid”)
• Compute  (Not included unless “Mode” is set to pipeline or inline)
• Workgraph  (Not included unless “Mode” is set to workgraphs (path tracer exclusive))
• Acceleration Structure Builds
• Driver
• Energy

For more details on how each of these scores are established, see the following sections. Scores that can be sub-divided to individual GPU passes, the section on each score details the “render passes” that fall under the respective score.

Raytracing

The Raytracing score is the score formed from all passes that perform hardware accelerated raytracing through the respective Vulkan Raytracing and DXR APIs. This score can be highly dependent on the trace mode, inline or pipeline, and the type of renderer, hybrid or path tracing. See also the sections on Tracing Modes and Renderers. 

Note that when the “Renderer” is set to “Path Tracing”, the only render pass that may be ran is “Wavefront Pathtracing”.

• Global Illumination Tracing

These passes shoot rays sampling the Global Illumination of the scene, used to fill the irradiance cache.

• Reflections Tracing

These passes trace rays from surfaces that have reflective properties such as metals, or the reflective coating on leaves.

• Shadow Tracing

These passes trace rays to check for light occlusion, eg. figuring out which objects are being shadowed from the sun, and which objects aren’t. 

• Wavefront Pathtracing

These passes trace rays simulating the light as it travels throughout the scene. This will only be run when “Renderer” is set to “Path Tracing”.

• Transparency and Translucency Tracing

These passes trace refracted rays through transparent surfaces such as glass.

• Water tracing

These passes trace rays from water surfaces to calculate reflected light.

Rasterization

The Rasterization score is the score from all passes that perform operations involving the hardware rasterizer, converting triangles to pixels. This is not active in the “Path Tracer”, as all the output is formed through raytracing. See also the section on Renderers.

• Rasterization Culling

These passes cull geometry that is not visible on the screen to reduce the amount of rasterization work.

• Visibility Buffer
  

These passes render geometry using the rasterizer, primarily for creation of visibility buffers used for Raytracing.

• Deferred

These passes use the rasterizer to primarily build g-buffers from the visibility buffers for raytracing and composite the final frame.

Compute

The Compute score is the score from operations on the GPU such as preparing for rendering, animations and wind physics. Due to it involving both rendering-related operations as well as other game-like logic, this score encompasses a larger set than most other scores.

• Post 

These passes include effects such as depth of field, eye adaptation, Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA), and upscaling.

• World Update

These passes perform animations, streaming and book-keeping so that data is available for rendering.

• Water Resolve

These passes are responsible for compositing the results from water reflection and refraction in the final image.

• Global Illumination Resolve

These passes calculate the Global Illumination of the scene by sampling the irradiance cache and processing the results using ReSTIR.

• Reflections Resolve

These passes process the results from reflection tracing by applying ReSTIR to reduce noise.

• Shadows Resolve

These passes process the shadow hit results. They apply additional processing for soft shadows.

• Transparency and Translucency Resolve

These passes do additional processing for translucent geometry such as particles.

Workgraph

The Workgraph score captures all shading and computation operations performed on the GPU, except Acceleration Structure Builds. In a run that has “Mode” set to “Workgraph”, all GPU work normally categorized under “Raytracing”, “Rasterization” and “Compute” scores is now dispatched in one single batch through the new “Workgraphs” feature. The resulting score is a combination of all aforementioned scores. 

• Pathtracing

These passes trace rays simulating the light as it travels throughout the scene. 

Acceleration Structure Build

The Acceleration Structure Build score is the score from GPU operations that build the necessary dependencies for performing Raytracing operations. The algorithm for building these dependencies is highly dependent on the vendor.

• Build Blas 

Driver pass that builds the bottom level acceleration structures used for ray tracing

• Build Tlas

Driver pass that builds the top level acceleration structures used for ray tracing

• Refit Blas

Driver pass that refits the bottom level acceleration structures used for ray tracing

Driver

The Driver score is the score from operations issued on the CPU side for the graphics driver to complete. As of now, this captures operations for creating and updating Acceleration Structures specifically. This score can be influenced by the speed of your CPU, but will also capture stalls induced by the graphics driver on the CPU side.

Energy

The Energy score is a measurement of energy consumption of the GPU, which is derived from the measurements as provided by the hardware vendor. You may therefore see differences between graphics cards from different vendors. Since power usage can differ based on the selected “Tracing Mode” and “Renderer”, these can also influence the energy score to some degree. See also the sections on Tracing Modes and Renderers for more details.