On Feb 06, 09 01:56:19 +0000, John Tapsell wrote: > >> > glxgears is not a benchmark. > > At openSUSE we print out a warning now (well, this change went into > > *after* 11.1, unfortunately), that this is not a benchmark. We got really > > tired of these statements. > Except that it _is_ a benchmark. Or rather waas before the change.
No, it never was. > If for example, without vsync, a user gets just 100fps on their new > nvidia card, then that is clearly showing that something is wrong. So it is a validation tool, but not a benchmark. A benchmark - by definition - gives you performance figures that can be compared with other systems, which gives you a reasonable notion of which of the systems is better. Which exactly is not the case with glxgears. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <[email protected]> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ [email protected] Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ R & D www.mshopf.de _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
