ati graphics on laptops

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Tue Oct 11 14:14:33 UTC 2005


On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, David Becker wrote:

> Tim wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:13 +0200, David Becker wrote:
> >> 250 fps is kinda low. I'm working on a desktop with a (somewhat
> >> ancient) Matrox G400 with a mere 16MB SDRAM and get around 450fps.
> >
> > Though what good does that do you?  No monitor runs anywhere near as
> > fast as either of those speeds.
>
> The fps in this context is a poor man's graphics benchmark. glxgears
> running at 450fps probably translates to an unacceptable frame rate for
> current day games. 250fps is likely to be worse and aforementioned
> 2275fps is likely to give a good fps for a full blown openGL game/app.

Thanks.  I was wondering the same thing.
How does one measure such numbers?
Attach the "null monitor" and let it rip, perhaps?

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