Subj : Re: Latest nVidia drivers
To   : alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux
From : David Warren
Date : Sat Jul 10 2004 07:54 pm

Harry Phillips wrote:
> I just downloaded and installed the latest nVidia drivers (6106) for Linux.
> 
> I have done so on two machines, both are running Mandrake 10.0 Official
> with all the latest updates. I thought I would check out how they both 
> went. So I ran glxgears on both, the results surprised me.
> 
> The GeForce 4 MX440 (128M RAM) is getting a score of ~1,700fps
> The FX5200 (128M of RAM) is only getting a score of ~1,000fps.
> 
> I thought the scores would really be the other way around. Does anyone 
> know what could be causing the FX5200 to be running slower than the GF4? 
> Or have some suggestions on how to make both go faster?
> 
> PS. Please don't post a "ha ha, I get 120,000fps on *my* card" response, 
> I really don't care and it doesn't help anyone. Sure, include your boast 
> along with your suggestion but no boast only posts please.
> 
Using glxgears here on my FX5200 (128M) only gets a score of 1160 fps. 
This is with a P4 2.6Ghz HT and 512MB of RAM.  AGP is running at 8x with 
agpgart (I also tried nvagp, one frame per second slower with it) and I 
also enabled FastWrites.  This doesn't really bother all that much, 
running SimCity 4 is pretty much as fast as in Windows and Tuxracer runs 
great (neither of which I use often).

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