Glxgears -- can this be true?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 18 November 2006 20:10, Ric Moore wrote:
>On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 11:48 -0800, spmirowski wrote:
>> > From: "Clyde E. Kunkel" <clydekunkel7734 at cox.net> With a radeon 9200
>> > AGP card and FC6 + rawhide I was getting a smidgen over 200 FPS with
>> > glxgears and then I put Option "EnablePageFlip" "true" in xorg.conf
>> > and glxgears shot up to a consistent 2238 FPS. Is this possible or
>> > am I getting bogus readings? Is there a better benchmark for 3D
>> > performance?
>>
>> ID games have demos (can run in timedemo (runs game faster if
>> possible) mode, too):
>> Quake 3 Arena
>> Return to Castle Wolfenstein
>> Enemy Territory (free game)
>> Doom III
>> Quake IV
>>
>> Or Some Epic games:
>> Unreal Tournament 2003/4
>>
>> Google Earth can be pretty intensive if you turn up the 3D options.
>> (free version avail).
>>
>> GLXgears has almost no geometry and a whole lack of shaders and no NPC
>> AI. It is a good, quick test to see if yer 3D is operational, but a
>> terrible test of performance.
>
>I tried it for nVidia 3200+ and it seems to make no difference at all...
>950 FPS mostly, in glxgears. <sigh> Ric

Yeah, same here, on an rv280 card.

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