On Wednesday 31 August 2005 02:58 pm, Sven Krahn wrote: > > Sven Krahn wrote: > > >>>Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > >>>>My FX5200 on an Athlon XP 2800+ machine gets 610fps on default > > > > glxgears. > > > > >>>>An FX5200 is no speedy card at all. > > > > > >Does anybody (Len?) have an idea what the fps rate for FX 5700LE (with > > >an AMD64 3200+) should be? Mine is at roughly 1450fps (with default > > >glxgears), though I remember with an earlier nvidia driver I have it > > >seen at 2700fps already. I have no clue what the benchmark could be... > > > > Default glxgears for Athlon XP 2000 with GeForce 5600 FX gets > > > > 16666 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3333.200 FPS > > Still I had this issue on my todo list and and briefly wanted to close it > for myself and the list archive: > > With no obvious irregularities in my x.org <http://x.org> and the BIOS > settings, I still have about 1450fps with glxgears (Athlon 64 3200 with > GeForce FX 5700LE). When switching to a text console with e.g. ALT-F2, > waiting a few seconds, then with ALT-F7 going back into X I see that > glxgears was up to 5180fps - what a difference! - and falling back to > 1450fps again when switching back to my X display. > > My desktop configuration is KDE 3.4.1, x.org <http://x.org> 6.8.2, and > translucency and transparency activated in KDE. Obviously, simply having > all this on the active display without any other additional load already > has this remarkable impact on the fps rate. I did not yet evaluate any > further, which part of KDE exactly is causing this.
Make sure to not forget that the function to actually draw the frames has a *lot* less overhead when you are at a console and it is essentially a noop. Joel Johnson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
