Paul wrote: >>I don't want to start a flame war here, but the r200 open-source >>driver is *very* fast and very high quality. > > Maybe I should revisit them on my old 9000 card ... when I used to use > them they did not do mult-texturing and did not support s3tc compressed > textures. I don't believe the texture compression issue is fixed > because of patent issues. GL_ARB_multitexture is supported in new Mesa, but I'm not sure if it's accelerated on r200. s3tc _is_ supported for radeon, r200 and Intel chipsets, altough encumbered code is kept in a separate library to avoid legal problems for Mesa: http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/dri_experimental/s3tc_index.html >>Even though glxgears isn't a comrehensive benchmark suite, I'd >>like to point out that I get 2800-3000 fps with a Radeon 8500 >>card using the latest CVS code. NVidia cards usually score >>less than 2000 fps. > > Hmmm I'm getting the following on a nVida 5700 Ultra (a far from top > range nVidia Card) > [subsolar@azure ~]$ glxgears > 20495 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4099.000 FPS > 27532 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5506.400 FPS > 27474 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5494.800 FPS > 27347 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5469.400 FPS > 27244 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5448.800 FPS Oops, perhaps I've been avoing NVidia cards for too long :-) BTW, NVidia is the only binary driver for Linux that doesn't suck and works fine even with latest versions of the kernel. (that's just a technical consideration, it doesn't mean we should all be depending on it). -- // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept. \X/ http://www.develer.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
