FC5, progression or regression?

[Bill Nottingham]

David Timms (dtimms at bigpond.net.au) said: 
> With glxgears, I see the gears update about 15 times in 10 seconds, and 
> the results are (AMD athlon 2600+, 512ram, nvidia fx5600)# glxgears
> 888 frames in 5.4 seconds = 165.811 FPS
> 798 frames in 5.0 seconds = 158.416 FPS
> 912 frames in 5.7 seconds = 161.284 FPS
> 798 frames in 5.0 seconds = 158.274 FPS
> 798 frames in 5.1 seconds = 155.004 FPS
> It's hard to tell if this is just a stobing effect ;-)
> 
> I think it was at least an order of magnitude higher in FC4 - from 
> memory approximately 5000 f/s (but perhaps only with the nvidia 
> (non-open) driver).
> 
> Bill: this would seem to fit the *significantly* term: is this what 
> others see ?

Actually, this wouldn't - the default nv driver doesn't support 3D
acceleration - the nvidia (non-open) driver does. So it's comparing
apples to oranges.

Bill