OT - Re: Fedora Core 5 Idea

[Paul]

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 at 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