glxgears fc5

Motor motor1024 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 5 23:12:20 UTC 2006


On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:12:49 +1000, David Timms wrote:

> Motor wrote:
>> 
>> My PC: Athlon XP2000+, Matrox G550 AGP card (32Mb gfx RAM).
>> 
>> When I ran glxgears under FC4, I got about 1200 fps. After upgrading to
>> FC5 and the new xorg, I get 600 fps.
> I get 155 FPS on an Nvidia FX5600 128MB card, with the open source nv
> driver, so your are doing pretty well really...
> 
> I know if I use nvidia's driver it might be x10- x20 that value.

At least you have a choice. I've had the performance of the only available
driver cut in half -- with no explanation, and seemingly no intention to
ever fix it.




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