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

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Robert Noland <rnoland at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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.

What Should we be using for benchmarks? I have a Few machines I can test.

Sam Fourman Jr.