On Thursday 01 March 2007, Jonathan Berry wrote:
On 2/28/07, Gene Heskett gene.heskett@verizon.net wrote:
On Saturday 24 February 2007, Jonathan Berry wrote:
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closely tied to your CPU and other factors. I have a (PNY) 6600 GT with 128 MB Video RAM and I get: (with AIGLX enabled) $ glxgears 19516 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3903.179 FPS 28603 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5720.504 FPS 27597 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5519.237 FPS 28336 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5661.658 FPS (without AIGLX) $ glxgears 37436 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7487.071 FPS 36616 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7322.496 FPS 37653 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7530.581 FPS 36758 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7351.457 FPS
Jonathan
And what sort of a cpu etc do you have there? Those figures are about 30x
I have an Athlon64 3500+ (2.2 GHz), 2 GB RAM DDR400 dual-channel running 64-bit FC6.
what I'm getting after using the nvidia installer to put the most recent
The driver from Livna (or another repo, if you prefer, I forget which other one has it) is really the better way to go. I'm not sure if things are better now, but be careful if you upgrade anything related to X with the nVidia installer.
driver in. This card, and I miss-spoke is a 3DForce 6200-256. the nv driver would not even run it as well as the ATI ran, including limiting the resolution to 1440x900, which is a far cry from square pixels here.
That's a widescreen format. My LCD panel actually uses that resolution.
But after I'd installed the nvidia driver, I was back to my usual 1600x1200 and looking good, but, on the XP-2800 Athlon with a gig of 333FSB ram, glxgears, while obviously a heck of a lot smoother, isn't anywhere near that fast:
5939 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1187.719 FPS 5969 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1193.787 FPS 5961 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1192.097 FPS
A lot of that may be your CPU and RAM. These are a few times faster than the numbers Claude cited at first, which he said were on a 2.66 GHz P4.
And I think thats a real clock speed, the xp-2800 is propaganda as its actually running at 2Ghz.
So this may be about right. Also remember that my 6600 GT is a couple steps better than your 6200.
Eiiyyup. This is an improvement, and as long as the installer will keep building a new version like it did this time for a bleeding edge kernel, I'll be relatively happy.
As far as livna, I got tangled up in some earlier livna stuff and had to tie smart in knots to get things back to somewhat normal. So that repo is now turned off.
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So what do I check next? And, whats all that 'Ncon' stuff telling me?
I do not know anything about the glxinfo output. It looks like things are working to me.
Jonathan
Well, the Ncon part was what I didn't grok. And it is working, stinking the place up with the new pcb burning in smell, but working.