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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.
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 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