On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:43:48AM +0200, Alexander Jede wrote: > Hi list, > I have installed sid on my machine with the closed-source nvidia-driver > for XFree. > But running the benchmark glxgears I get only about 600 fps. > It seems to be not enougth for a NVidia Geforce FX5200.
My FX5200 on an Athlon XP 2800+ machine gets 610fps on default glxgears. An FX5200 is no speedy card at all. The FX5200 has only 4 pipelines (not 8 like a 5800), uses DDR (not DDR-II) type memory (so less bandwidth there). It has no Z-compression. It only runs 250MHz core and 400MHz memory, so it isn't going to get that much done as a 5800 with twice the pipelines, 800MHz memory (so twice the memory speed, and I think maybe even twice the bus width to memory) and DDR is slower at the same speed than DDR-II. The FX5200 was meant to replace the MX440, which was hardly a fast card, and neither is the FX5200. It is cheap though and works pretty good as long as you don't expect it to be a fast 3D card. It supposedly compares well to a Radeon 9000. That too isn't considered a fast card anymore. This is a 3 generations old chip, in the bottom end configuration of that generation. :) Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
