64bit or 32bit for my laptop

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 22:40 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:45:26 +0800
> Meng Qiu wrote:
> 
> > The "gears" for my GeForce4 MX440 on F10 is about 1700 FPS.
> > But the number for my HD1950pro on F11(pre) is never up to 100 FPS!
> 
> 7074 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1414.687 FPS
> 7103 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1420.448 FPS
> 7102 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1420.320 FPS
> 7112 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1422.319 FPS
> 
> That's on Fedora 10 with an ATI X1550 card and the video driver that's included
> with Fedora 10.  (Not the proprietary driver.)

For comparison:

6799 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1359.743 FPS
6961 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1392.055 FPS
7015 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1402.842 FPS
6660 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1331.944 FPS
7034 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1406.609 FPS
6960 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1391.793 FPS

That's on an Intel mobo with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo and 4GB of RAM, using the
*onboard* 82Q963/Q965 graphics chip. So either glxgears isn't a very
representative benchmark, or installing one of these graphics cards is a
waste of time. I'm not sure which.

poc