Ubuntu 13.04 Desktop Gaming Performance Comparison

[89c51]

Slightly off topic but Michael weren't you supposed to be publishing some steam benchmarks? Are these comming?

[bleubugs]

Don't composite fullscreen windows

I guess that all compositor where tested without their respective option to disable compositing on fullscreen. That would explain why they are all in the same ballpark. For Enlightenment, we don't turn this feature on by default as most driver out there are buggy and I guess all compositor have the same behavior. So I recommend to go in Settings/Composite/Advanced/Memory/Don't composite fullscreen windows for Enlightenment if you want better number.

Now if you look at the number as a benchmark for just how fast compositor are at pushing frame, it is still interesting. I am wondering why some test case show E17 as been slow when other it is more at lead of other composite manager. I should spend time playing I guess :-)

[oleid]

One thing that I find interresting ist, that gnome-shell is sometimes the slowest and sometimes (one of) the fastest desktop(s) according to these benchmarks. How can that be? Shouldn't there be a uniform slowdown due to composite?

[dungeon]

Which parts? Might want to report those as bugs (to either mesa or stk, depending on the cause).

This:

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1301233-PTS-SUPERTUX37

Compared with this:

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1301248-RA-TUONGPV7583

And then results with intel:

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1301239-FO-INTELMESA88

Could someone rerun supertuxkart with current radeon on non-unity maybe.

[mark_]

@mark_

XDM = X Display Manager, the original login thingy?

yes, the plain standard easy and ugly thingy. That one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDM_%28display_manager%29

[curaga]

@mark_

XDM = X Display Manager, the original login thingy?

[curaga]

And also seems like supertuxkart have no problems with fps on intel, like radeon has - in some supertuxkart tests i see there radeon is even slower then on llvmpipe

Which parts? Might want to report those as bugs (to either mesa or stk, depending on the cause).

[mark_]

so: the less complex the WM the more FPS. What about xdm? If Xfce gives me 10fps more than KDE and xdm gives me 10fps more than Xfce this could be totally worth it for a gaming machine. Please include xdm next time.

[dungeon]

Nothing interesting here for me as openbox user, only seems like good prove that intel runs great across the board.

And also seems like supertuxkart have no problems with fps on intel, like radeon has - in some supertuxkart tests i see there radeon is even slower then on llvmpipe

[a user]

i would also like to know if gnome shell was used with mutter or compize?