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Subject: Re: matrox millenium / XFree86 3.3 xbench results 8)
In-Reply-To: <199706100422.VAA08195@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Jun 9, 97 09:22:53 pm"
To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 13:31:13 +0100 (BST)
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> {hasty} awk -f scripts/xstones.awk  < results/matrox.run
> TOTAL   1947365 lineStones
> TOTAL    964984 fillStones
> TOTAL    452761 blitStones
> TOTAL  61404537 arcStones
> TOTAL   3285909 textStones
> TOTAL    993398 complexStones
> TOTAL   1139709 xStones
>         ^^^^^^^
> I am in love !
> 
> resolution  1280x1024 color depth: 8
> 
> Not too long ago X servers based on et4000 used to clock in around 10 to
> 15k xstones. In such a short time to get this kind of performance 
> is almost a miracle .
> 

But why run it in 8bpp? (Have you got any figures for 16 or 24bpp?)

BTW, I'm fairly sure this is more than Xi claim for the Millenium, the
fastest card under AccelX. IIRC AccelX/Millenium does 1.0-1.1 MxStones.
They also have no numbers for higher bpps...

Thanks, Michael.