[HEADS UP] Experimental 3D HW accel support for Radeon HD 2xxx, 3xxx and 4xxx.

Robert Noland rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jan 12 02:39:43 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 20:27 +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Norikatsu Shigemura wrote:
> 
> > Hi Radeon HD 2xxx, 3xxx and 4xxx users!
> 
> Tried this now too with your mesa3d.tar.bz2 (10/01/09) but why is it so
> slow?
> 
> > glxgears 
> IRQ's not enabled, falling back to busy waits: 2 0
> 10241 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2048.125 FPS
> 10220 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2043.875 FPS

glxgears is not a very useful benchmark... I primarily only tells how
fast you can swap buffers.  At any rate, that does seem a tiny bit low,
I normally turn around 2200 - 2300 on my 4650 w/c2d.  I think if you try
with some GL games, you will find it quite adequate.

robert.

> Using a HD4890 on an core i7-920. I would expect the FPS going up to
> around 20,000? With Software Rasterizer I'm at around 500 FPS..
> 
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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