Some benchmarks with Radeon and Xorg7.1

[Paulo J. Matos]

On 09/06/06, Donnie Berkholz <spyderous at gentoo.org> wrote:
> Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> > I've tested X against three options: AGPFastWrite, EnablePageFlip and
> > AccelMethod. Both of these have 2 possible values, True/False for the
> > first two and XAA/EXA for the last one. I start fluxbox, 54 processes
> > are running with an average of 0% CPU, 138112 used RAM and 377896 free
> > RAM. The benchmarks table is as follows (CPU is average during
> > glxgears runtime and FPS are given by glxgears):
> > Method     EnablePageFlip     AGPFastWrite     FPS     CPU
> > XAA     False     False     702     10%
> > XAA     False     True     702     10%
> > XAA     True     False     978     14%
> > XAA     True     True     978     14%
> > EXA     False     False     661     10%
> > EXA     False     True     661     10%
> > EXA     True     False     661     10%
> > EXA     True     True     661     10%
>
> It is interesting to see that you get almost a 50% increase in glxgears
> from page flipping, but only when using XAA. It would be even more
> interesting to see benchmarks of some real-world programs.
>

What's the definition of real-world apps and how would you take the
benchmarks on those apps if they explicitly don't show FPS values?

> Thanks,
> Donnie
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