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Subject: Re: matrox millenium / XFree86 3.3 xbench results 8)
In-Reply-To: <199706101602.JAA06312@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Jun 10, 97 09:02:47 am"
To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 12:24:49 +0100 (BST)
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> >From The Desk Of Mr M P Searle :
> > > {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.
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> I will run the xbench for 32bits when I get home tonite. Typically I run at 16 
> or 32bits. 
> About my benchmark figures , I was running fvwm95 and my ftp and web site
> were open so in short the figures are not optimal. Nor my intention was
> to show the fastest xbench rather the relatively quick performance of the
> the X server. Is hard for me to post such high figures since I am an S3 fan 8)
> 

So was I :)
with an S3-968 card, 2M VRAM, I get ~250K 8 bit, ~120K 16 bit, ~60K 24 bit IIRC.
Resolution 1152x864 for 8/16 bit, 800x600 for 32 bpp, done with nothing but
a couple of rxvts and twm running, on XFree 3.1.2.