Re: Perfomance problems with NVidia
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 02:58 pm, Sven Krahn wrote:
> > Sven Krahn wrote:
> > >>>Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > >>>>My FX5200 on an Athlon XP 2800+ machine gets 610fps on default
> >
> > glxgears.
> >
> > >>>>An FX5200 is no speedy card at all.
> > >
> > >Does anybody (Len?) have an idea what the fps rate for FX 5700LE (with
> > >an AMD64 3200+) should be? Mine is at roughly 1450fps (with default
> > >glxgears), though I remember with an earlier nvidia driver I have it
> > >seen at 2700fps already. I have no clue what the benchmark could be...
> >
> > Default glxgears for Athlon XP 2000 with GeForce 5600 FX gets
> >
> > 16666 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3333.200 FPS
>
> Still I had this issue on my todo list and and briefly wanted to close it
> for myself and the list archive:
>
> With no obvious irregularities in my x.org <http://x.org> and the BIOS
> settings, I still have about 1450fps with glxgears (Athlon 64 3200 with
> GeForce FX 5700LE). When switching to a text console with e.g. ALT-F2,
> waiting a few seconds, then with ALT-F7 going back into X I see that
> glxgears was up to 5180fps - what a difference! - and falling back to
> 1450fps again when switching back to my X display.
>
> My desktop configuration is KDE 3.4.1, x.org <http://x.org> 6.8.2, and
> translucency and transparency activated in KDE. Obviously, simply having
> all this on the active display without any other additional load already
> has this remarkable impact on the fps rate. I did not yet evaluate any
> further, which part of KDE exactly is causing this.
Make sure to not forget that the function to actually draw the frames has a
*lot* less overhead when you are at a console and it is essentially a noop.
Joel Johnson
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