GoogleEarth for Linux has been released

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 6/14/06, Trond Danielsen <trond.danielsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/14/06, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > >>
> > > 3368 frames in 5.0 seconds = 673.481 FPS
> > > 3367 frames in 5.0 seconds = 673.284 FPS
> > > 3799 frames in 5.0 seconds = 759.770 FPS
> >
> > I think thats your problem, those figures aren't so hot.
> >
> > For comparison, my laptop (now 2.5 years old) has a nvidia geforce
> > fx5650, and with the binary nvidia driver I get around 2500 FPS. For new
> > cards I have seen much bigger numbers quoted (4k-5k and above).
> > It also could be the driver you are using doesn't implement some needed
> > by google earth ?
>
> I know the video card isn't the fastest one in the world, but Google
> Earth runs ok in windows.

glxgears is a horrible benchmark.  Its performance is impacted by a
large number of factors outside of the videocard/GPU you're using,
including CPU speed, available RAM, kernel version, disk IO.


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