[cairo] new cairo gears performance benchmarks

[Soorya Kuloor]

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 21:33 +0100, Olaf Leidinger wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I just installed the brand-new Xorg-supporting ATI drivers and wanted to
> see glitz in action ;-) 
> 
> 
> Hardware:
> ---------
> AMD Athlon-XP 2500
> 512 MB RAM
> ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AR [Radeon 9600]
> 
> Software:
> ---------
> Gentoo Linux, Kernel 2.6.9
> XFree: ATI driver 8.8.25 for Xorg 6.8.0
> Display resolution: 1024x768
> ciaro cvs
> glitz cvs
> cairogears from http://www.cs.umu.se/~c99drn/
> 
> 
> The numbers below are in frames per second as reported by the
> test. The old values are from Soorya Kuloors benchmark, April 2004 
> [1] using the older ati drivers on an Athlon64 3200 and XFree 
> using a Radeon 9800
> 
> But I don't know if he could do hwaa - as I couldn't.
> 

When I posted the my numbers, I was not doing HWAA. However, later on I
figured out how to convince ATI drivers to do HWAA (you need to tweak
the xorg.conf file, its in the README file). The numbers were similar
but a bit lower. I haven't tried anything with the newer drivers though.

-- Soorya

> Test   backend       normal-size    old values
> ----   -------       -----------    
> 
> TRAP   image          10.0 	       9.2    
>        xrender        10.6 	      11.8            
>        glx***        235.0	     150.2 
> 
> GRAD   image           9.3	       8.4
>        xrender         8.5	       9.2
>        glx***        195.0	     125.4
> 
> COMP   image           7.2	       5.0
>        xrender       [fails]*          6.4 
>        glx***         894.2	    2087.0
> 
> TEXT   image          20.7	      18.4
>        xrender        [fails]****     22.6 
>        glx***         79.6 **	      61.8         
> 
> TEXT2  image	      126.0           [no data]
>        xrender	      [segfault]        " 
>        glx***	      592.0             "
> 
> SHADOW image           8.1	       2.1
>        xrender        [fails]#	       2.62
>        glx***         218.0	     133.0  
> 
> 
> *: X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  62 (X_CopyArea)
>   Serial number of failed request:  78
>   Current serial number in output stream:  89
> 
> **: there is some flickering...
> 
> ***: -hwaa does not work: 
>    Error: couldn't find window format
> 
> ****:X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  62 (X_CopyArea)
>   Serial number of failed request:  56
>   Current serial number in output stream:  98
> 
> I'd be interested in why -hwaa doesn't work.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> Olaf
> 
> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2004-April/001149.html
> 
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