Comment 294 for bug 252094

The problem with this is that you started testing glxgears because, for
instance, GoogleEarth started to crown when in the previous Linux version it
flyed (my case, good GE performance with Xandros on my eee and unsuable GE
on ubuntu 8.10).

You end up with some idea of the performance loss when they say that Ubuntu
7.04 could make glxgears achieve 1500FPS and now it done only 50FPS.

The question now is, how are we going to know if the performance of later
versions is enhanced or not if we don't measure it with the same tools? Does
anyone have numbers FPS on Tremulous or some other 3D intensive app as far
as Ubuntu 7.04 so we can compare with 9.04 (without the vblank sync thing
that makes numbers up)?

(The vblank sync that reduces Jaunty FPS might be a clever thing for normal
use and energy-wise, but is it not very useful when comparing different
driver versions for performance)

Jose

2009/1/28 Hans <email address hidden>

> I believe that in the past, Bryce has stated that 3D applications that
> report frame-rates will do. Such as Tux Racer. In order for this to be
> useful though, you have to be careful to capture your system
> configuration: XXorg.0.log, glxinfo, xdpyinfo,, etc.
>
> Phoronix also has a test suite that does similar things.
>
> Hans
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