Matthias Hopf wrote:
On Aug 06, 06 11:48:59 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
I have an nvidia card and glxgears is also displaying painfully slow values however, all the 3D stuff works fast so glxgears is not dealing well with this card. Some friends nvidia card on SUSE 10.1 does will with glxgears just not mine. In fact, there is a strange thing:
- nv and Mesa => above 1000 FPS in glxgears - nvidia-1.0-4496 => 800 FPS - nvidia-1.0-87xx => 213 FPS
and yet, UT is slowest with nv/Mesa, and remains the same between 4496 and 87xx.
So what is strange about those numbers?
glxgears basically only tests the speed of glxSwapBuffers() - anything above 60 FPS is syntactic sugar and doesn't tell you anything.
So maybe glxSwapBuffers() is highly optimized in Mesa, but that doesn't count. It's totally irrelevant, as it will not be called more than 60 times per second.
The nv driver does not support *any* hardware acceleration, so no wonder UT is slow.
Matthias
You wanna be *really* impressed with how fast your card is? :-) When running glxgears, minimise it and let it run for a minute or so. Boy, ain't your card the fastest one on the block! :-) . Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1