glxgear and glxinfo confusion

[Jatin K]

On Tuesday 24 January 2012 01:12 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Monday 23 January 2012 15:43:38 Jatin K wrote:
>> On Monday 23 January 2012 03:22 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>>> Nothing seems to be wrong with your X setup, AFAICS. What problem are
>>> you
>>> experiencing?
>> There is no issue... I was just comparing my two laptop's performance both
>> are Dell, one is core-i5 with ATI 1GB dedicated memory and another is
>> core-i7  with Intel HD 3000 graphics
>>
>> so just checking the performance and tried the glxgears command and seen
>> the big difference in FPS
> I always found the output of glxgears quite confusing, to say the least. If
> you think logically --- your screen displays a picture 60 times in one second,
> and some graphics cards (like Intel) render the frames in the same rythm, to
> display the images of the gears animation 60 times per second.
>
> OTOH, there are graphics cards like ATI, which render cca 4000 gears images
> every second, out of which only 60 get to be displayed on the screen, while
> all others are skipped. I find this to be a terrible waste of card resources
> (and energy), without any benefit whatsoever. That is, assuming one can
> actually trust the glxgears output numbers.

good clarification .... thanks



>
> And in spite of the above, people generally consider the 4000 fps to be
> "better" than 60 fps.

myself too..

> I never understood this. But then again, one cannot
> understand everything in life anyway... ;-)

thats the low of nature ...no one can understand everything

>
> Best, :-)
> Marko
>
>
>


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