Fun times ahead it seems. Will be interesting to see where things are at when the dust settles on all of these patches.
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I've finished the tests that I was planning on running. Heaven improved the most, but when I ran Xonotic at 1920x1200 at the highest settings, the framerate went from 9fps to 29... Not bad for just a kernel upgrade with a few hundred lines of changed code. I'm assuming that running Xonotic at max settings caused my GPU to run out of available VRAM and cause lots of swapping between system/vram, which is something that this new feature should help out with.
The tests include:
Heaven
Nexuiz
OpenArena
World of Padman
Smoking Guns
Tremulous
Urban Terror
Warsow
Reaction Quake 3
Xonotic
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Originally posted by Veerappan View Post**tests**
Thanks for testing!!
It seems opensource has ~60% performance already.
Does your driver already have Marek HyperZ patches?
I assume Xonotic uses more modern OpenGL features, that are done in software or ignored now - hence low fps.
You can prove me right or wrong, if you test OpenArena 0.8.5 (old GL) and compare how it scales to 0.8.8 (more modern GL).
PS
You can safely drop Urban Terror, its bottlenecking piece of dust.
PPS
I wonder how it scales on 5850/70 // 6950/70 hardware...
Thanks again!
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Originally posted by crazycheese View PostCorrect URL: http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1...SU-ASYNCDMAT84
It seems opensource has ~60% performance already.
Does your driver already have Marek HyperZ patches?
I honestly don't remember if this had the suballocator patches hand-applied before I started, but I think it did. I can check again by re-running the reaction quake tests on the old kernel and checking the performance against my original reaction quake 3 tests.
Originally posted by crazycheese View PostI assume Xonotic uses more modern OpenGL features, that are done in software or ignored now - hence low fps.
You can prove me right or wrong, if you test OpenArena 0.8.5 (old GL) and compare how it scales to 0.8.8 (more modern GL).
Originally posted by crazycheese View PostPPS
I wonder how it scales on 5850/70 // 6950/70 hardware...
Thanks again!
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Originally posted by crazycheese View PostOpenBenchmarking.org, Phoronix Test Suite, Linux benchmarking, automated benchmarking, benchmarking results, benchmarking repository, open source benchmarking, benchmarking test profiles
I assume Xonotic uses more modern OpenGL features, that are done in software or ignored now - hence low fps.
You can prove me right or wrong, if you test OpenArena 0.8.5 (old GL) and compare how it scales to 0.8.8 (more modern GL).
I'm downloading pts/etxreal at the moment, and we'll see how that works out. once that's done running and I've gotten some sleep, I'll upload an updated result set.
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Originally posted by Veerappan View PostOpenArena 0.8.5 actually regressed slightly (from 154 to 147 fps, not enough to worry too much about)
Compared to Catalyst ratings as baseline, if we watch 6950 fps drop, the ideal performance loss is only 75%(instead of 84%). Thats the amount of deficiency in MESA.
This would mean, if GLSL and various other adjustments in MESA are done, your GPU would theoretically top at 37 fps for OA 0.8.8 profile.
Of course, this is projected from current baseline OpenGL2.0 performance - if that improves too, fps would climb at same rate.
For example, in link above, watch a fps "show" with Warsow 1.0. This game heavily uses shaders and they are bottlenecking to such a great degree, that under opensource 6570 (50% to catalyst) runs same to 6950 (15% to catalyst)!
But hey, only 3 years ago, I had 5 fps in 0.8.5 using 4670...
Originally posted by Hamish Wilson View Post60% of what? What baseline are you using?Last edited by crazycheese; 13 December 2012, 03:32 AM.
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ET:XReal wouldn't run on this machine, so I'm calling it quits for now with this latest upload:
OpenBenchmarking.org, Phoronix Test Suite, Linux benchmarking, automated benchmarking, benchmarking results, benchmarking repository, open source benchmarking, benchmarking test profiles
If I feel really ambitious over the weekend, I'll install catalyst and get some comparative numbers.
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