BenchmarkSzenen

BenchmarkSzenen is a framework and collection of standardized scenes used to evaluate the performance and realism of graphics, vision, and simulation systems. It comprises multiple scene templates with predefined geometry, materials, lighting, and camera configurations, designed to produce repeatable measurements across hardware and software platforms. The term is used in technical and academic contexts to refer to these benchmark scenes as a coherent suite rather than a single test.

The scenes cover a range of environments, including urban, natural, indoor, and synthetic settings, and are accompanied by reference outputs and evaluation scripts. They typically specify parameters such as polygon counts, texture resolutions, lighting models, motion and dynamics, and camera paths. BenchmarkSzenen aims to reflect common workloads in rendering, perception, and simulation to enable fair comparisons across engines, GPUs, and CPUs.

Evaluation typically reports metrics such as frame rate or render time, memory usage, energy consumption, image quality metrics (for example PSNR or SSIM), temporal stability, and startup or load times. The framework emphasizes reproducibility by providing scene graphs, asset catalogs, and guidance on software versions and compiler flags, enabling researchers and practitioners to reproduce results across platforms.

Usage of BenchmarkSzenen spans game engines, film and virtual production workflows, robotics perception stacks, and academic research. It supports comparisons of rendering algorithms, path tracers, denoisers, and sensor simulations, and is often employed in cross-hardware benchmarking and regression testing for engine updates. Critics note that benchmark suites may not capture all real-world workloads and require regular updates to stay relevant with advancing hardware.