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These benchmarks are to provide a general view of the speed differences between various cards available for Unix users, and someday to compare if there are differences between Linux and FreeBSD for DRI use.

I have removed the old benchmarks and the unfinished stuff. The system is a Athlon 1800+ XP processor (1530Mhz), 512MB RAM, FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE as of  Jan 31.  The desktop is 1600x1200, so video memory is limited on the cards. Also, note that XFree86 only changes the video mode instead of resizing the screen, when vidmode is applied (e.g. in quake3 at 640x480 I don't have more memory available than at 1600x1200).

Mesa Demos:

Compiled with no special options, but linked to libGL in a shared way, rather than the static way Mesa's compilation system defaults to. The Mesa demos are from Mesa 3.5 CVS as of 2001-07-21, and the binaries are available in the files section. The Mesa demo rates are the "stable" numbers after a few runs. Best viewed on a freakin' huge screen.
The XFree86 4.2.0 was the 4.2.0 port that was removed from CVS for 4.5-RELEASE (recovered with CVS). Kernel modules were 0.9.5.

Notes: ATI cards had excessive fogging in the 'fire' demo, compared to runs with LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT set. They also had errors about buffers being used by the X Server pid that were owned by pid 0. This issue has been discussed on the mailing lists, at a fix may be in GATOS.
Software
Hardware
depth
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fps
pixels/s
FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE
XFree86 4.2.0
Athlon 1800
16MB PCI Voodoo3
16
1370
99
287
91
1780000
29500000
FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE
XFree86 4.2.0
Athlon 1800
64MB AGP Voodoo5
16
1413
119
285
80
3000000
35800000
FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE
XFree86 4.2.0
Athlon 1800
64MB AGP Voodoo5
32
687
66
136
60.5
3000000
28600000
FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE
XFree86 4.2.0
Athlon 1800
32MB AGP MGA G400
16
805
73
189
161
3240000
44900000
FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE
XFree86 4.2.0
Athlon 1800
32MB AGP MGA G400
32
368
48
101
324
3310000
33100000
FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE
XFree86 4.2.0
Athlon 1800
32MB AGP R128
16
465
36
83
23
1160000
13500000
FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE
XFree86 4.2.0
Athlon 1800
32MB AGP R128
32
139
11.9
24
19
2120000
12200000
FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE
XFree86 4.2.0
Athlon 1800
64MB AGP Radeon 64MB VIVO
16
1212
104
340
38
811000
13800000
FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE
XFree86 4.2.0
Athlon 1800
64MB AGP Radeon 64MB VIVO
32
951
98
237
36
312000
12600000