Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 05:38:19 -0700 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: fischerking1905@yahoo.co.jp Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Test Results for Radeon Drivers on R9-270X card Message-ID: <CAOgwaMufG1duuZwSF4C0f8Z1DmSjb%2Baq=7ASWf8OBAt5gcCu3Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <143227.90183.qm@web101915.mail.ssk.yahoo.co.jp> References: <143227.90183.qm@web101915.mail.ssk.yahoo.co.jp>
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On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 4:22 AM, <fischerking1905@yahoo.co.jp> wrote: > Hello and thank you all for your work on Radeon drivers for FreeBSD. > I hope I'm posting this in the right place. > > My computer specs are: > CPU - AMD FX-8350 > RAM - 8GB > Graphics Card - XFX R9-270X > > > The card is performing very well with the Radeon graphics. I was > previously using an nvidia gt 740 cardwith of course nvidia drivers. I took > out this card and replaced it with the R9-270X. For web surfing and > watching DVDs and general computer use the performance seems to be the same > with the R9-270X card. It seems to speed up getting to the desktop after > login with the Radeon drivers. Also some web pages seem to open faster with > the Radeon drivers. However: > > > There is slight tearing during DVD playback using smplayer on default > settings. There was none using the nvidia card. > > I installed supertuxkart to see how the card would perform and I'm afraid > the game runs at about half or perhaps two-thirds speed depending on the > track used. With the GT 740 the game ran fine. > > > Sometimes youtube videos seem to freeze or pause very slightly and then > resume again > > > There was no xorg.conf file (or at least I could not find it). I tried to > generate one with the command "X -configure" but I got the message: > > (EE) > Fatal server error: > (EE) Server is already active for display 0 > If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock > and start again. > (EE) > (EE) > Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support > at http://wiki.x.org > for help. > (EE) > > > Then I booted as single user and I generated the above attached xorg.conf > file using the X -configure command. This appeared originally in /root as > xorg.conf.new I then copied this file to /etc/X11/. > I have not changed anything in this file. > > > Can xorg.conf be configured to improve performance? > > > If it helps, this is the output for glxgears: > > 3745 frames in 5.0 seconds = 748.385 FPS > 3312 frames in 5.0 seconds = 662.312 FPS > 4028 frames in 5.0 seconds = 804.705 FPS > 4062 frames in 5.0 seconds = 812.346 FPS > 4071 frames in 5.0 seconds = 814.086 FPS > 4042 frames in 5.0 seconds = 808.314 FPS > 3341 frames in 5.0 seconds = 668.030 FPS > > > > > To summarise the card is performing well and apart from DVD playback and > the supertuxkart game speed (which I don't really care about) it performs > the same as the nvivia card. > > Thanks very much again for all your work. If you want me to do more > testing please let me know. > > Neville > > _______________________________________________ > > What is the name of the mother board ? Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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