GeForce 7300 GS gets 1900 fps in glxgears -- Is this normal?

ajtolland1 · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 4

Hi,

I've got a Pentium D (2.8Ghz) with a PCI-E GeForce 7300 GS. The Pentium has 1GB of RAM, and the video card has 256MB. I'm running gentoo-sources 2.6.16-r6 , and the unstable nvidia-glx-1.0.8576 . glx-info shows that direct rendering is on, and opengl-update --get-implementation indicates I'm using nvidia . DRI is not enabled in xorg.conf.

I'm getting 1845 fps when I run glxgears (default window size on a 1024x768 16bit screen). Is this normal? I was getting almost this much on a machine with half the muscle.

chrismortimore · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 10:50 am Post subject:

I found that when using the nvidia drivers from portage, I always got really bad performance, my 6600GT gave me about 1500fps on glxgears, my 5200Go got about 50fps. I installed them manually from the nvidia site and now the 6600GT gets ~11000fps and the 5200Go gets ~3000fps. Perhaps give that a go.
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Desktop: AMD Athlon64 3800+ Venice Core, 2GB PC3200, 2x160GB 7200rpm Maxtor DiamondMax 10, 2x320GB WD 7200rpm Caviar RE, Nvidia 6600GT 256MB
Laptop: Intel Pentium M, 512MB PC2700, 60GB 5400rpm IBM TravelStar, Nvidia 5200Go 64MB

kraut · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 179

hi there,
have a look here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-478558-highlight-.html
i have the same problem - unfortunately didnt find your thread first before posting - sorry :oops:

as you can see in the thread I posted, the card is OK. i checked using UT2004 in windows and linux.
very odd. either my xorg.conf is faulty, or there is a problem with PCI-E and nvidia drivers

kraut · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 179

*bump*