How many FPS should my Nvidia yield?

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#1

Hi!
I run OS11.1 with KDE4.2 (Release 99) on laptop;
Dell Latitude D830 Core2Duo 2GHz 2GB RAM, with Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M 512MB
Driver is the latest from YOU: 180.29

When i run glxgears i get 198FPS in full screen.
Resolution is 1400x1050@60 24bits.

Is this what i should expect?

#2

glxgears is a very imprecise way of measuring graphics speed. There is a wiki that talks about this. There are other benchmarks that are out there. Obviously, it depends heavily on the GPU. It also depends on the version of the driver. For instance, my desktop has a XFX Geforce xtreme 6800. With some of the older drivers, I was getting 14000fps. With the latest drivers, it is down to 11000fps. Again, glxgears is not accurate.

My laptop has a 7000M card built into the mainboard. With Fedora, I get 1700fps. Resolution is 1280x800@60 24bpp. With opensuse, 1200fps. Fedora uses a newer version of Xorg, but I don’t think that is the issue. Slackware uses an older Xorg, yet I get 1700fps.

Your number seems a bit low. But glxgears is not the best way. You need to run some kind of 3D game.

#3

Any advice how to messure 3D and FSP on OpenSUSE11.1?

#4

ronnys wrote:
> Any advice how to messure 3D and FSP on OpenSUSE11.1?

$ glxgears -info

Kind regards,
Andreas Stieger

#5

On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 13:06 +0000, ronnys wrote:
> Hi!
> I run OS11.1 with KDE4.2 (Release 99) on laptop;
> Dell Latitude D830 Core2Duo 2GHz 2GB RAM, with Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M

That is a low end card.

> 512MB
> Driver is the latest from YOU: 180.29
>
> When i run glxgears i get 198FPS in full screen.
> Resolution is 1400x1050@60 24bits.

However, that’s way too low. Are you using the
Nvidia proprietary drivers? If not, then that’s
the problem.

>
> Is this what i should expect?
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