On 09/04/2009 04:34 AM, Adam Carter wrote:
I use gentoo sources, and have just updated from .28-r5 to .29-r5 both using
ati-drivers 9.8. glxgears dropped from 1850 to 1500, however vmware guest OSes
appear to be loading twice as fast (used vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 with 28 and
1.0.0.23-r1 with 29).
Interestingly ati-drivers 9.7 with .29 returned 1800fps on glxgears, but really
I don't care much about 3D so I havent gone back.
I'm just wondering how other ati and vmware users are finding the kernel
versions, and in particular if you're having luck with .30-r4?
Please stop using glxgears as a performance benchmark. You could double
the driver's performance in real applications and glxgears would report
the same or worse results.
Use a real benchmark. If app-benchmarks/phoronix-test-suite is too
complex for you (it's overkill for a quick GL test), you can try some
stand-alone GL benchmark. Like this:
http://dee.cz/lightsmark
