Linux Graphic Card Benchmarks?

chomber · n00b Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Posts: 35

Hello gaming community,

Am I only one who is intrested about graphic card benchmarks?
There are coming new cards available in 4-6 month cycle and latest decent article/benchmark what I found (from tomshardware.com) was made in year 2000!! come on!

It could be nice to see how drivers are improving, how kernel version is affecting, I know that it's a lot of work but at least some popular cards from nvidia and ATI could be measured eg. comparison of geforce2 gts, geforce 4200, geforce FX 5xxx and ATI 9600, 98xx...

I am pretty sure some of you guys are working in place where you could lend these cards for eg. weekend and made some article/benchmark?

You could use eg. Quake3, Enemy territory, unreal tournament 2003 etc.

I bet you would get lot's of hits and news about it and first of all you could make huge help for linux gaming community.

just my 2c for this dark area...

- Cho

MADcow · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2003 4:10 pm Post subject:

glxgears!everyone is doing it!</sarcasm>
really, we need something better than glxgears.

TheCoop · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2003 4:15 pm Post subject:

ut2003-demo has gfx card benchmarking stuff in it
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blue.sca · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2003 7:06 pm Post subject:

quake3 demo4... a liitle more balanced on cpu but still ok
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pross · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 12:16 am Post subject:

How about quake3-demo (as its in potage) with default settings at 800x600...?
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sgaap · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 2:42 am Post subject:

quake3-demo

800x600
default settings
no sound ( s_initsound 0 and snd_restart in your q3 console)
demo2

linux: 163,5 fps (latest nvidia drivers)
windows xp: 141,7 fps (5.2.1.6 forceware)

system:
athlon xp 2000 (1666mhz)
kt133a
pc133@133
leadtek 5900 LX 128mb

//edit
linux:(demo2) 152,3 at 1280x1024@32bit everything max (detail,trillinear),
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pross · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 1:41 pm Post subject:

1399 frames, 4.4 seconds: 319.1 fps
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sgaap · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 6:09 pm Post subject:

time to upgrade my mobo and memory me thinks ...
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sgaap · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 11:37 pm Post subject:

I also run a 2000+ on a kt133a (with 1666 its the max I can run on this board)
But mobo's and memory are fairly cheap I noticed so its probably good for my performance to upgrade it to a nforce2 with some ddr
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SQLBoy · Guru Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 381

32 bit color is really 24 bit color. There is no difference quality wise. 1 byte is allotted to each color channel. The difference is that in 32 bit color the 4th byte is wasted. This will actually improve performance in many cases because 32bit processors are more efficient accessing data in 4 byte blocks (32 bits).