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March 11, 2005

64bit Dual-head 3D

Sweet success is mine!

Finally, I have a had a little time at home to try out the 64bit ATI fglrx drivers for my dual-head Radeon9800Pro card in my dual Opteron workstation. It works very well. First try, too :).

My first interactive 3D program? Chromium.

Just a couple of meaningless benchmarks for those who know what they are:
$ fgl_glxgears
3809 frames in 5.0 seconds = 761.800 FPS
4325 frames in 5.0 seconds = 865.000 FPS
4313 frames in 5.0 seconds = 862.600 FPS

[I had a processor load meter running at the same time and it did not even register any CPU activity during this test.]

$ glxgears
18434 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3686.800 FPS
21609 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4321.800 FPS
21602 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4320.400 FPS
21605 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4321.000 FPS
21608 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4321.600 FPS
21604 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4320.800 FPS
21606 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4321.200 FPS
21605 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4321.000 FPS
21604 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4320.800 FPS
21611 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4322.200 FPS
21602 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4320.400 FPS
21603 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4320.600 FPS
21605 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4321.000 FPS
21605 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4321.000 FPS
21606 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4321.200 FPS

[This time, one of the CPUs registered about 80% utilization during the test.]

Well, I'm off to install 64bit Unreal Tournament 2004. Tee-hee :).

Posted by lamontp at March 11, 2005 7:30 PM