[ale] Nvidia vs ATI on low cost laptops

[James Taylor]

Just as a reference, I've got a two year old Thinkpad with an ATI Radeon
LW and I get the following

7054 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1410.800 FPS
7799 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1559.800 FPS
7799 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1559.800 FPS
7796 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1559.200 FPS

-jt
 


James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
678-697-9420


>>>Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com 02/05/05 8:06 pm >>> 
Geoffrey, 
Howdy!  Would you run glxgears on your laptops for me and report the 
frame rates? 
13319 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2663.800 FPS 
15475 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3095.000 FPS 
15550 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3110.000 FPS 
15505 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3101.000 FPS 
 
This is from my desktop with a Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 and I am using 
the default 300x300 window size for glxgears.  At 1280x1024 I get
239fps. 
 
The commands on SuSE for good info are 3dinfo, glxinfo, and glxgears 
from what I can quickly tell.  Thanks for the feedback on your laptops 
since just supporting 3D and doing it well make a difference for 
modelling proteins and will affect my choices.  I know the Dell Inspiron

with the Nvidia graphics is really nice, however it is a heavy expensive

desktop replacement laptop.  Thanks, 
Dow 
 
 
 
Geoffrey wrote: 
 
>Dow Hurst wrote: 
> 
>>I'm interested in getting a reasonably priced laptop but I need good 
>>OpenGL performance to make it useful to me.  I know that ATI now has 
>>some drivers available for 3D under Linux but I trust the Nvidia 
>>drivers alot more.  I've never used the ATI drivers but most laptops, 
>>especially the low cost ones are ATI driven or Intel integrated 
>>graphics driven.  Only the high end stuff seems to include Nvidia 
>>chips.  Does anyone have experience with the new ATI drivers?  Are 
>>they stable usable and with good performance? 
> 
> 
>Hey Dow!  I've got two laptops, my Sony, which I believe you've seen, 
>that has an ATI 7500, uses Xorg and supports 3D, absolutely rock 
>solid.  I just picked up an hp pavilion ($500 after rebate at Circuit 
>City, before Christmas sale).  It has Intel Extreme Graphics 2 and it 
>works quite well and supports 3D. 
> 
>I"ve tried the ATI drivers, but they didn't perform any better for me 
>than Xorg, so I went back to the Xorg drivers. 
> 
 
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