2009/2/18 Corbin Simpson <mostawesomed...@gmail.com>: > John Tapsell wrote: >> 2009/2/18 Matthias Hopf <mh...@suse.de>: >>> 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. >> >> Right. If one system gets 100fps and another gets 1,000fps, then you >> compare the two systems and say that one is better than the other. >> All you are saying is that it's not an accurate comparison if the >> numbers are close. > > A benchmark also measures specific hardware performance and tests > optional features. glxgears only tests clear speed and the rate at which > a modest-sized vertex buffer can be rendered. A useful sanity test, but > nothing more.
Well whatever we call, it's no longer useful for sanity checking if it's limited to 60fps :-) _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg