Re: [Dri-users] Radeon Mobility 9000 driver performance

[Alex D. <ale...@gm...>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:31:31 +0100, Javier Ruiz Hidalgo
<jav...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to compare my driver performance with you guys. I've got a dell
> d600 latitude (with a Radeon Mobility 9000). I've compiled dri from
> cvs as described in the dri wiki and everything seems ok (glxinfo
> reports " Mesa DRI R200 20041207 AGP 4x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL"). I'm using
> a custom compiled XORG 6.8.1 on debian sid.
> 
> I've measured my driver performance (didn't know a better alternative):
> 
> - 3D (using "glxgears") gives around 1000fps

3D will get a nice speed up from using hyperz (available in mesa/drm
cvs) and Roland's tiling patches (see dri-devel ML archives).

> - 2D (using "x11perf -shmputxy500") gives around 40/sec

the tiling patches may speed up 2d as well.

> - composite extension (using "xcompmgr -Cc") really slow (don't know
> any program to measure it but moving a translucent window is nearly
> impossible :-(
> 
> Is this the expected performance for my card or I can expect to get
> higher on 3D/2D?

you can get much higher on 3d.  see above.

> 
> On the composite extension, who is to blame for the slowness, my
> setup, the card driver, the xcommgr manager. are likely to see
> improves on this soon?

this is a limitation of the current XAA infrastructure.  If you want
fast composite, you may want to play with Eric Anholt's Xati driver in
xserver cvs.

Alex

> 
>  Thanks !!!
> 
> --
> Javier Ruiz Hidalgo <jav...@gm...>
>