This article serves as complement to the article "3D under SuSE Linux" (http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_3d.html) and provides a list of 3D accelerated graphics cards and their values generated with the program gears. However, because gears depends on the CPU performance in addition to the used color depth, we have also included the CPU specification on the corresponding test system.
During the test with gears, make sure the text window from which gears starts does not cover the actual gears window. For this purpose, leave the window size as it is when gears starts, so you can establish a comparison with our sample values.
For further information about your graphics card's 3D configuration, refer to "3D under SuSE Linux" (http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_3d.html).
To start gears, open a text console and enter the command "gears".
System Configuration | Values |
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Pentium II, 400 Mhz, 24-Bit color depth |
FireGL 1 ca. 1200 fps FireGL 2 ca. 2900 fps FireGL 8800 ca. 1300 fps |
Pentium III, 500 Mhz, 3Dfx Voodoo3 PCI, 16-Bit color depth |
4593 frames in 5.000 seconds = 918.600 FPS 4583 frames in 5.000 seconds = 916.600 FPS 4589 frames in 5.000 seconds = 917.800 FPS 4559 frames in 5.000 seconds = 911.800 FPS 4585 frames in 5.000 seconds = 917.000 FPS |
Pentium III, 500 Mhz, 3Dfx Voodoo3 PCI, 24-Bit color depth |
549 frames in 5.008 seconds = 109.625 FPS 513 frames in 5.006 seconds = 102.477 FPS 521 frames in 5.002 seconds = 104.158 FPS 521 frames in 5.005 seconds = 104.096 FPS 521 frames in 5.005 seconds = 104.096 FPS 521 frames in 5.004 seconds = 104.117 FPS This shows that 3DFX cards have no 3D acceleration support with 24-Bit color depth. |
Pentium III, 500 Mhz, Kyro 2, 16-Bit color depth |
2625 frames in 5.000 seconds = 525.000 FPS 2636 frames in 5.001 seconds = 527.095 FPS 2627 frames in 5.000 seconds = 525.400 FPS 2637 frames in 5.000 seconds = 527.400 FPS 2625 frames in 5.001 seconds = 524.895 FPS |
Pentium III, 500 Mhz, Kyro 2, 24-Bit color depth |
2831 frames in 5.000 seconds = 566.200 FPS 2978 frames in 5.001 seconds = 595.481 FPS 2977 frames in 5.000 seconds = 595.400 FPS 2977 frames in 5.000 seconds = 595.400 FPS 2975 frames in 5.000 seconds = 595.000 FPS |
Athlon XP 1700+, Matrox G400, 16-Bit color depth |
5391 frames in 5.000 seconds = 1078.200 FPS 5912 frames in 5.000 seconds = 1182.400 FPS 5909 frames in 5.000 seconds = 1181.800 FPS 5910 frames in 5.000 seconds = 1182.000 FPS 5900 frames in 5.000 seconds = 1180.000 FPS |
Athlon XP 1900+, GeForce4 TI 4400, 16-Bit color depth |
34632 frames in 5.000 seconds = 6926.400 FPS 35488 frames in 5.000 seconds = 7097.600 FPS 35489 frames in 5.000 seconds = 7097.800 FPS 35491 frames in 5.000 seconds = 7098.200 FPS 35490 frames in 5.000 seconds = 7098.000 FPS 35482 frames in 5.000 seconds = 7096.400 FPS |
Athlon XP 1900+, GeForce4 TI 4400, 24-Bit color depth |
20220 frames in 5.000 seconds = 4044.000 FPS 20588 frames in 5.000 seconds = 4117.600 FPS 21231 frames in 5.000 seconds = 4246.200 FPS 21063 frames in 5.000 seconds = 4212.600 FPS 20912 frames in 5.000 seconds = 4182.400 FPS 21259 frames in 5.000 seconds = 4251.800 FPS |