From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 10:57:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA05156 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:57:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from junior.lgc.com (junior.lgc.com [134.132.10.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA05143 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:57:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from ses3.lgc.com by junior.lgc.com (8.6.9/lgc.1.26) id MAA14655; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 12:53:36 -0600 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 12:54:33 -0600 (CST) From: Rob Snow To: "Jacob M. Parnas" cc: jdc@xinside.com, Luigi Rizzo , robert@steffi.dgsys.com, questions@FreeBSD.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Subject: Re: Accelerated-X Announcement: Approved announcement In-Reply-To: <199603080903.EAA12765@jparnas.cybercom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Jacob M. Parnas wrote: > > I'd like to see a list of xstones with cards/OS/Xversion. According to Matrox > their Millenium with 4 MB and 32 colors on a Pentium 90 Mhz gets about 800,000 > xstones in 256 color mode (8bit) and 720,000 in 24 bit mode. I'm planning > on upgrading my Sun sparc 2 with a GX card that gets like 80,000, I think. > I wonder what the new server would get with the same card on a 200 Mhz > Pentium pro, which I intend to get soon with 128 MB of memory and a 4 GB SCSI > III 7200 RPM, 8.5 ms average access time disk drive. (I have 64 meg now). > > I'd be interested in comparisons between different machines like the Sun > UltraSparc 1 and 2 with different cards and Silicon Graphics with the R10000 > and their high end graphics cards and the Dec Alpha. > > Also, I'd be interested in a comparison between the xstones of the same > card on different OS's for the Pentium Pro 200 Mhz with different OSes > like BSDI, Linux, SCO, Solaris x86, freebsd, netbsd, SGI's Unix, DEC's OSF > and Ultrix, IBM's AIX on the RS/6000 and intel platforms. > > Jacob > I happen to have an Indigo-2 on my desk and an UltraSparc 1 Creator-3D across the hall. I've also got a couple of Onyx-Reality Engine 2's that I could test on. BTW, My SGI guy tells me that SGI's just do "OK" on xstones since its only X calls and not GL calls. BTW, We've got about the hole smear of machines (SGI, Sun and IBM at least) if anyone wants some numbers off them. -- Rob Snow Sys Admin & Bottle Washer Landmark Graphics, Inc.