NVIDIA Linux 2008 Year in Review
When using the X Render back-end with QGears2 there was more performance improvements to note. Over the course of the year the frame-rate in QGears2 throughout the Gears test by about 30%. The text performance with X Render had improved by more than six fold. Lastly, the image scaling performance in QGears2 with the X Render back-end had more than doubled.