radeonhd vs radeon, 2400HD vs 9200SE

[Edgar Toernig]

Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
>
> Gene Heskett írta:
> >
> > I just swapped out the new 2400HD card for the old 9200SE, rv280 based card, 
> > and while I saw some sort of a notice go by during boot to a non-x login 
> > screen, and startx killed the monitor for about 5 seconds, but other than 
> > that its working MUCH better than when I took it out at least a year ago.
> >
> > So at a glxgears of 650 frames,
> 
> This doesn't sound right, my Radeon 9200SE produced about 960fps
> with glxgears, my current X700 gives around 2100fps.

Hmm... I often see these low numbers and don't understand them.
Either glxgears is a totally bogus test or those system are not
configured correctly: I get over 3800fps with my onboard 9100 IGP
(24bit color depth, more with 16bit).

Even while watching TV in parallel (DVB-S, software MPEG decoder,
fullscreen XV overlay) glxgears stays well over 3400fps.
[Btw, mplayer's GL-renderer with GL_ATI_fragment_shader for YUV
to RGB conversion (-vo gl:yuv=5) works well, too.]

Driver:
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 20060602 AGP 4x x86/MMX/SSE2 NO-TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 6.5.2

Ciao, ET.