Ed, On Thursday 26 October 2006 17:52, Ed McCanless wrote:
I found this thread very interesting and helpful, since I am looking at video cards to upgrade my system. I am curious though, about the frame rates. Since movies look pretty good at 24 fps, and experts have claimed for many years that we can't see changes very much faster than that, what is the advantage of the extreme frame rates most of the newer cards offer?
The glxgears display is very simple and not reprsentative of 3D applications. It's just meant as an arbitrary benchmark. If hardware A gets, say, 500 fps and hardware B gets 5000, then probably hardware B is several times faster than hardware A. But in a realistic situation with scenes far more complex than that shown in glxgears, the actual frame ratest will be much lower.
-- ED --
Randall Schulz