On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 20:01 +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
Michael A. Peters wrote:
> I don't know of a video card with an open source driver that has the 3D
> performance of NVidia, and 3D is really the only reason to run the
> nvidia binary drivers anyway (I have no problems with the open source
> nvidia drivers for 2D)
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.
The current CVS code from Mesa and DRI is even better than what
we have in Xorg 6.8.2. Doom 3 runs nicely and it's quite fast.
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
Regards,
Paul