[Dri-users] ATI Rage Fury Benchmarks and more

[Shanker B. <sh...@ex...>]

Hello:

Benchmark results of my ATI Rage Fury.

System Specs:

AMD Duron @650Mhz
DFI AK74 series Slot A motherboard (Via KT133/686B, Supports AGP 4X)
128 MB SDRAM
ATI Rage Fury 128 with 16 MB SGRAM

$ lspci -v

[...]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RF (prog-if 00 [VGA])
	Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0048
	Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
	Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
	I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
	Memory at d9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <available only to root>
[...]


Quake2 Benchmarks -

Sound was on, i have not figured out how to switch sound off :). I
assume that FPS would increase if sound is disabled(?).


AGPMode 				 1X			2X			4X

1024x768@60		-		23.0		23.8		23.9
800x600@85		-		34.5		35.0		34.8
640x480@85		- 		48.6		48.7		48.6

Gears benchmarks - 		2X

1024x768@60		-		687
800x600@85		-		685
640x480@85		-		708


Observations:

- No change in performance in 1x, 2x or 4x. The card does not do 4x but
  i just tried using AGPMode as 4 just for kicks. Looking at the results
  i guess it does not matter what the port speed is set to.

- I guess that the video hardware sets itself to the max AGP speed as
  supported by it since "AGPMode" paramter did not reflect any changes.
  'glxinfo' would report the AGP speed as defined in "AGPMode"

- IIRC, Q2 in windows 2000 professional gave roughly double the
  performance with the same hardware at _all_ resolutions. I dont have
  Windows anymore so cant verify my claim.

- I onced experienced a blocked cursor shile starting Quake. The sort
  of thing you get on el cheap SiS cards which require "sw_cursor" to be
  set. Restarting Quake solved the problem :)

- Most important of all, the system was rock solid stable while doing
  the following:

  	Starting and stopping quake2 nineteen times
	Changing resolutuns nineteen times
	Running gears 6 times
	Cycling X's resultion with a OpenGL app (Quake2) running 
	Running XMMS's OpenGL spectrum analyzer plugin
	
- No hardware lockups whatsoever
	
- No console restore issues after exiting X

- I assume that the ATI driver coders preferred stability over
  performance. This i feel is a wise move to ease a users frustrations.


Thanx guys, it took a little over a year to get this far :)

-- Shanu

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