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850 fps with software?

850 fps with software?

Posted Nov 6, 2008 21:42 UTC (Thu) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224)
Parent article: Large I/O memory in small address spaces

So, Linus' 850 FPS with software is just using the 2D hardware
and rendering all the 3D stuff in software?

Where the 85/380 is using the 3D hardware on the chip?


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850 fps with software?

Posted Nov 8, 2008 6:10 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Ya. Glxgears runs slower with hardware acceleration on that driver.

That's one of the reasons why Glxgears makes a lousy benchmark for many purposes. But it still is useful as a microbenchmark as a way to find certain types bottlenecks. It's obvious that there is a still lot of room for improvement.

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