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On 09/04/2009 04:34 AM, Adam Carter wrote: |
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> I use gentoo sources, and have just updated from .28-r5 to .29-r5 both using ati-drivers 9.8. glxgears dropped from 1850 to 1500, however vmware guest OSes appear to be loading twice as fast (used vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 with 28 and 1.0.0.23-r1 with 29). |
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> Interestingly ati-drivers 9.7 with .29 returned 1800fps on glxgears, but really I don't care much about 3D so I havent gone back. |
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> I'm just wondering how other ati and vmware users are finding the kernel versions, and in particular if you're having luck with .30-r4? |
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Please stop using glxgears as a performance benchmark. You could double |
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the driver's performance in real applications and glxgears would report |
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the same or worse results. |
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Use a real benchmark. If app-benchmarks/phoronix-test-suite is too |
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complex for you (it's overkill for a quick GL test), you can try some |
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stand-alone GL benchmark. Like this: |
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http://dee.cz/lightsmark |
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