On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 09:21 +0000, L. Rahyen wrote:
On Saturday October 20 2007 08:40, Scott Ritchie wrote:
speedator wrote:
Hello everybody, new benchmark-test at phoronix.com: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=882&num=1
Wait, they tested 3D Mark 2001 and 3D Mark 2003...
Weren't those the exact same benchmarks NVidia was found to be cheating with by including hacks into their drivers on Windows? No wonder they found Windows to be faster in the graphics tests!
Can anyone find a real (ie, not rigged on Windows) benchmark to use?
Thanks, Scott Ritchie
I think that best real benchmarks is real-world applications. For example Unreal Tournament can show performance difference between OpenGL and DirectX in Linux and this can be compared with results on Windows. Of course there is a lot of other good games which can be used as benchmarks. It would be great if someone who have both Linux and Windows on same computer will run few games (preferably both old and new ones in order to test performance of DirectX 7, 8 and 9) at same conditions so we can see what is the real difference in FPS between Linux (WINE) and Windows. Unfortunately personally I havn't Windows installed (only in VMWare for running Autodesk applications) because dual-boot is unacceptable option for me and actually I havn't need in Windows at all, it just isn't technically suitable for my daily tasks. But I think there is some people with dual boot configuration and modern PC who has some games to test and enough free time to compare the results between Windows and Linux.
I can go ahead and try to install Supreme Commander and see if I can get it updated to the latest version. The auto-updater uses the .Net Framework so that makes it a little difficult.
But, it has a performance test / benchmark mode I could run to do some comparisons.
Stephan