And, for comparison, the same benchmark, on the same system, with the FireGL drivers from ATI.
9200: 18.798862 / 39.684578 / 184.560455 fps rand[1951333785] Score = 39.461594 8500: 20.887423 / 44.828197 / 195.236023 fps rand[1951333785] Score = 44.228085 Adam On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > Since I have access to both a 9200SE and an 8500 (but not a 9000 or 9200, > unfortunately), I decided to run a quick benchmark with the cards using > ut2003. With the Inferno Flyby, I got the following results with the > 9200: > > 5.294707 / 14.600776 / 133.766464 fps rand[1951333785] > Score = 14.621037 > > With the 8500: > > 6.049539 / 16.863998 / 157.929214 fps rand[1951333785] > Score = 16.860273 > > An average of about 2 fps higher with the 8500. This is with DRI cvs from > about a week ago (the 12th, I think), with the software DXTn compression > library. Dual 1 gig, P3, 512 megs RAM. > > Adam > > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Chris Ison wrote: > > > > You know how to verify that... > > > > I've actually forgotten how, I think its an enviroment setting, but none of > > the settings I saw when I grep'd for getenv triggered my memory. > > > > > I'm sure you've tried page flipping and ruled out things like usleeps in > > > the client side drivers? > > > > enableing page flipping made a difference with glxgears, but made little or > > no difference when it came to applications (QuakeForge sat at 35fps > > reguardless). Infact, with page flipping enabled, and a 3d window active, > > switching to a linux console then back again causes tearing that can only be > > fixed by restarting the app. > > > > There are usleeps in mesa (r200_context and r200_texmem) and in DRI, > > QuakeForge has 1 usleeps which when removed make it slower due to it eating > > the cpu. Could you please be more specific as to which client side drivers > > you mean. > > > > > If you're still running a relatively slow CPU, that may be the > > > bottleneck (how do that other QF developer's overall system specs > > > compare to yours?); > > > > Mine is a AMD Athlon XP 2400, 512megs of 333 DDR ram > > Taniwha's system is dual celeron 450, 512MB, 100MHz fsb > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > Dri-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
