NVIDIA AYiR 2006
With Linux SLI being sub par, for testing this year's NVIDIA drivers we had used the GeForce 7800GTX. The GeForce 7800GTX has been supported under GNU/Linux since its launch in June of 2004. The drivers we had tested for our AYiR 2006 were 1.0-8756, 1.0-8762, 1.0-8774, 1.0-9626, 1.0-9629, and 1.0-9742. Below are the components we had used for testing.
Hardware Components | |
Processor: | AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ |
Motherboard: | Abit KN9 Ultra (MCP55 Ultra) |
Memory: | 2 x 1GB OCZ DDR2-1000 |
Graphics Card: | NVIDIA GeForce 7800GTX 256MB |
Hard Drives: | Seagate 160GB SATA2 7200.9 |
Optical Drives: | Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM |
Cooling: | OCZ Tempest |
Case: | SilverStone Crown CW01 |
Power Supply: | SilverStone Zeus ST75ZF 750W |
Software Components | |
Operating System: | Fedora Core 6 |
Linux Kernel: | 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 SMP (i686) |
GCC: | 4.1.1 |
Graphics Driver: | NVIDIA 1.0-8756 NVIDIA 1.0-8762 NVIDIA 1.0-8774 NVIDIA 1.0-9626 NVIDIA 1.0-9629 NVIDIA 1.0-9742 |
X.Org: | 7.1.1 |
For maintaining compatibility with the older display drivers we had pulled out Fedora Core 5 Bordeaux. For benchmarking we had used Enemy Territory, Doom 3, Quake 4, and GLOBS. Enemy Territory was used due to its legacy status and long time adoption by Phoronix. RTCW: Enemy Territory was tested at varying resolutions. Meanwhile Doom 3 and Quake 4 were both used to represent current popular Linux-native games. Quake 4 is the most demanding Linux-native game to date, and will likely be until the release of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars in the middle of 2007. Doom 3 and Quake 4 were both benchmarked at varying resolutions and image quality levels. GLOBS (GL Open Benchmarking Suite) is a recent newcomer to Phoronix and has proved to be a reasonable open-source OpenGL benchmark for comparing drivers and hardware components. GL Open Benchmarking Suite was benchmarked with a resolution of 1280 x 1024.