[Kst] kdeextragear-2/kst/tests/kstXbench

Barth Netterfield netterfield at astro.utoronto.ca
Fri Dec 10 15:50:13 CET 2004


CVS commit by netterfield: 

This program attempts to benchmark the qt/X calls used by kst, to see if your
graphics card is a bottleneck to performance.

To make it,
qmake -project
qmake
make

Typical kst screen updates are 1-5 Hz, so anything over 20Hz is fine.
The xorg or XFree drivers are ~20% faster in this bench than the ATI binaries.
I have not checked NVIDIA's drivers.

You can expect
ATI 9600: ~30 Hz
NVidia G4 ~35 Hz
ATI 9800: ~50 Hz
ATI 8500: ~30 Hz

S3 on board: 2-6 Hz
Laptop Radeons: 12 Hz - 25 Hz, depending on model and driver.

As with all benchmarks, make sure nothing else is running.

In some cases I have found terrible performance, even though nothing else
was running.  Restarting the X server fixed it.  Not sure why....


  A            README   1.1
  A            main.cpp   1.1 [no copyright]
  A            tw.cpp   1.1 [no copyright]
  A            tw.h   1.1 [no copyright]






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