From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 8 09:19:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01153 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:19:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (ken@panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01084 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:19:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id KAA02357; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:19:09 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199804081619.KAA02357@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter In-Reply-To: <199804071657.JAA00365@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Apr 7, 98 09:57:00 am" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:19:09 -0600 (MDT) Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote... > > Wilko Bulte writes: > > Interesting summary, as I may shortly be in the market to replace > > my 2MB Mach32 card. Was surprised nobody quoted > > /usr/ports/benchmarks/xengine results. It may not be much of a > > benchmark but its something more than seat of the pants. > > OK, people asked for it. 8) > > > I get between 750 and 1000 (peak) RPM, usually in the 800's with a 2MB > > PCI Mach32, 1024x768 16bpp with exmh also open. 64MB PPro-200/512k. > > > > About 1100 RPM on an 800x600 16bpp P-133 Mach64 machine at work. > > Under 3.0 as of early March, 337MHz PII on a 75MHz bus, talking to a > 4M Matrox Millenium II. > > XFree86 3.3.2, 1024x768x32bpp - 790rpm (constant) > XFree86 3.3.2, 1280x1024x24bpp - 845rpm (constant, screen corrupt) > XFree86 3.3.2, 1600x1200x16bpp - 1200rpm (constant) > XFree86 3.3.2, 1600x1200x 8bpp - 2780rpm (constant) > > Xaccel 4.01, 1280x1024x24bpp - 970rpm (constant) > Xaccel 4.01, 1600x1200x16bpp - 1480rpm (constant) > Xaccel 4.01, 1600x1200x 8bpp - 6105rpm (constant, screen corrupt) > > Performance isn't (to me) so much an issue as the server working. > Right now, neither work properly. The Xig server works better for me > than the XFree server, in that it's hard to use the system when there's > noise all over your windows. YMMV. current, late March, 233MHz Pentium Pro, 8M Millennium II Xaccel 4.1, 1280x1024x32bpp - sometimes ~1900rpm, sometimes ~2030rpm I've got a number of patches to Accelerated X 4.1 applied. If indeed you only have 4.01, you might want to upgrade to 4.1 and get the patches. The description for patch 22 says that it increases performance for the Millennium II. I'm not sure about the color depth, it's either 24 or 32bpp. In the Accelerated X setup thing, I've got the colors set to "16M, Overlays" as opposed to "16M, Packed". So I assume that's probably 32bpp. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message