Comment 295 for bug 252094

To answer "the question":

You can't. And what Bryce was saying was, "You never really could".
The glxgears score was never anything more than a rough metric for 3D
performance.

The solution is to move to new tools, and test previous versions with
those new tools, and then test later versions with those same new tools.
   (this is what Phoronix does). I do this regularly. I do this by
maintaining different distribution versions at the same time. I happen
to use USB Keys to do this, but others use multiple partitions on a
single (or multiple) hard drives.

I have 8.04, 8.10, 8.10 with backports, and 9.04 on different USB keys
and test them periodically (when I have the time).

Its a bit of a pain, but I feel it is a way I can contribute.

Hans

JoseLVG wrote:
> The problem with this is that you started testing glxgears because, for
> instance, GoogleEarth started to crown when in the previous Linux version it
> flyed (my case, good GE performance with Xandros on my eee and unsuable GE
> on ubuntu 8.10).
>
> You end up with some idea of the performance loss when they say that Ubuntu
> 7.04 could make glxgears achieve 1500FPS and now it done only 50FPS.
>
> The question now is, how are we going to know if the performance of later
> versions is enhanced or not if we don't measure it with the same tools? Does
> anyone have numbers FPS on Tremulous or some other 3D intensive app as far
> as Ubuntu 7.04 so we can compare with 9.04 (without the vblank sync thing
> that makes numbers up)?
>
> (The vblank sync that reduces Jaunty FPS might be a clever thing for normal
> use and energy-wise, but is it not very useful when comparing different
> driver versions for performance)
>
> Jose
>
> 2009/1/28 Hans <email address hidden>
>
>> I believe that in the past, Bryce has stated that 3D applications that
>> report frame-rates will do. Such as Tux Racer. In order for this to be
>> useful though, you have to be careful to capture your system
>> configuration: XXorg.0.log, glxinfo, xdpyinfo,, etc.
>>
>> Phoronix also has a test suite that does similar things.
>>
>> Hans
>>
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>> MASTER: Poor graphics performance on Intel
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252094
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