Preferred video card

[Charles Steinkuehler]

Duane Attaway wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> 
>> I have gotten my new 2.4 GHz Athlon system running RedHat, and even
>> gotten the new NVidia graphics card (Asus V9280S Ti4200 based) working
>> with the NVidia drivers.  I think it was also running in AGP mode (the
> 
> Bechmarking time.
> 
> Nvidia includes the opengl gears demo with their drivers.  xscreensaver 
> has this with the -fps option.  This is from my old nvidia geoforce2 card 
> in my laptop:
> 
> dattaway at satellite dattaway $ glxgears 
> 3565 frames in 5.0 seconds = 713.000 FPS
> 3833 frames in 5.0 seconds = 766.600 FPS
> 3850 frames in 5.0 seconds = 770.000 FPS
> 3817 frames in 5.0 seconds = 763.400 FPS
> 3820 frames in 5.0 seconds = 764.000 FPS
> 
> You should have much more than several hundred frames per second with your 
> faster computer...

Well, this looks like it works pretty well:
[charles at localhost charles]$ glxgears
22343 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4468.600 FPS
23803 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4760.600 FPS
23811 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4762.200 FPS
23820 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4764.000 FPS

Dragging windows around also seems a bit faster now, although it looks 
like the redraws are pretty asynchronous to the screen refresh, and 
occurring multiple times per video scan (making the edges ragged when 
moving), but I can live with that.

Out of curiosity, how does using the NVidia drivers for your GF2 chipset 
compare with the nv driver (which I think supports that chipset)?  I'm 
less interested in 3D performance than in 2D acceleration (ie standard 
windowing stuff used when running word-processors & spreadsheets).

-- 
Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net