[SOLVED] nvidia glxgears fps

heleos · 2007-07-30 02:14:14

I know glxgears isn't a good benchmark, but I just bought a new nvidia card, hoping it would work better than my x800 pro. My ATI card got around 4500 FPS in glxgears, while my new 8800GTS gets 1900.... I thought nvidia was suppose to be more linux friendly

Last edited by heleos (2007-08-01 22:00:44)

thecdn · 2007-07-30 02:28:20

1900? I'm getting 23600 with a 7900GS, something is wrong. Have you minimized the spinning gears window? That increases the glxgears numbers.

mitsoko · 2007-07-30 02:33:18

since you know glxgears is not a 'good' benchmark, i guess I'll just add that it cannot be used for any type of benchmarking .. because it is too sensitive to the environment,
some things that might be affecting this are the X configurations, like 16bit mode vs 24bit mode ... also, also, the size of the window is an influence, do not minimize it, this defeats the whole point of using glxgears in the first place.

and finally, these types of benchmarks are irrelevant, if games such as truecombat:elite, etc. plays well, they the setup is fine.

heleos · 2007-07-30 10:09:40

I'm not maximizing the window, I'm using the default size. I read somewhere that linux isn't supporting the 88xx series cards very well yet, but 1900 fps seems a little low...

here's my xorg incase I have something in there I shouldn't, or I'm missing something:

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"
    Option "AIGLX" "false"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "ddc"
    Load  "drm"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
        Load  "bitmap"
    Load  "type1"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "record"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard"
    Driver          "keyboard"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc104"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Mouse"
    Driver        "evdev"
    Option        "CorePointer"
    Option        "Name" "Logitech USB Gaming Mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor"
    Option         "DPMS" "true"
    Option        "ForceMonitors" "TMDS, None"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device"
    Driver    "nvidia"
    Option    "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
    Option    "ForceMonitors" "TMDS, Auto"
    Option    "ColorTiling" "on"
    Option    "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option  "DRI" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen"
    Device     "Device"
    Monitor    "Monitor"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Server"
    Screen      0  "Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option    "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Cerebral · 2007-07-30 12:18:25

thecdn wrote:

Have you minimized the spinning gears window? That increases the glxgears numbers.

I couldn't explain better myself why glxgears should never, ever, ever, ever be taken seriously. You lost some framerate in it? No big deal - it means nothing. Give me some framerates from Quake or Doom or something else, and then we have a basis for comparison.

veek · 2007-07-30 14:23:32

I agree that glxgears may be a dubious benchmark, but if this is being used on the same computer with all other variables being the same
(configuration, hardware besides vid card, size of glxgears window), the reduction in performance can clearly be attributed to the new video card setup.

At any rate, an article on Phoronix confirms performance issues with the Geforce 8 series drivers.

Starting from the second page of the article there are benchmarks comparing a few 8 series and 6 series cards
on both Windows and Linux.

For example on one of the Doom 3 benchmarks the 6600GT on Linux (58.60 fps) outperforms the 8600GT on Linux (52.10 fps), however
on windows the 8600GT gets almost 30fps more at 81.6 fps.

This is apparently a new issue with the 8 series, since earlier cards enjoyed equivalent performance across platforms

Article: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a … =781&num=1

Cerebral · 2007-07-30 15:01:01

Good find, veek. I <3 phoronix.

heleos · 2007-07-30 16:43:44

I guess it really is nothing to be worried about
My ATI was running radeon drivers (cause fglrx wouldn't work) and I couldn't boot up wc3, I got 1 fps.
Tried it with my new nvidia card, and it works like a charm
I should just remove glxgears so they don't haunt me anymore

karsten · 2007-07-30 16:45:19

thecdn wrote:

1900? I'm getting 23600 with a 7900GS, something is wrong. Have you minimized the spinning gears window? That increases the glxgears numbers.

i'm getting around there too

Gilneas · 2007-07-30 17:04:55

I have a 8600GT. I get about 6000 with glxgears window open and double that when minimised.

Depending on the map, I get about 50-130 fps in Counter Strike Source using 1280x1024 and low details.

karsten · 2007-07-30 18:51:34

Gilneas wrote:

I have a 8600GT. I get about 6000 with glxgears window open and double that when minimised.
Depending on the map, I get about 50-130 fps in Counter Strike Source using 1280x1024 and low details.

you should be getting that with high details set hehe

heleos · 2007-08-01 22:00:21

Well.... I found my problem, and I feel a little dumb...
When I installed kdemod, I noticed that glxgears was getting around 4000, instead of the 2000 I got in xfce.
SO, I just turned off Composite Manager in XFCE, and sure enough: 16000 fps.

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