It's been several months since I did the initial run of
benchmarks on DRI compatible
video cards. I started another run of benchmarks but stopped after a only a few
cards. Too little had changed at that point to make the effort worthwhile.
Since then there has been a good deal of improvement on the Savage and R200 drivers.
I'm not certain what improvements have been made on other chipsets, but I assume it's
not much. For the next iteration of benchmarks though I'm going to make some substantial
changes.
1. Adding additional video cards:
- Radeon 7500 64MB
- Radeon 8500LE 64MB
- Radeon 8800 FireGL 128MB
- Radeon 8500 128MB (Standard, not AIW)
- Nvidia Geforce 256 128MB
- Radeon 9200 256MB
- Voodoo 3
- Intel 740? Does it work?
2. Changing the demos used:
- massive1 Quake2 demo instead of demo1
- UCGuideDemo1 and UCGuideDemo2 Quake3 demos instead of demo four
- adding RevShogo demo
- maybee adding UT2K4 and Doom3 for the Radeons?
3. Adding the Summit drivers to the comparison?
4. Fixing some problems I caused:
- The Mach64 driver does work when set up properly
- The sis and r128 drivers might be more reliable with a bit of tweaking
It will be quite a bit of work, but the feedback on the original benchmarks was very
encouraging. I'm not the only geek wondering whether a 256MB Radeon 9200 is better or
worse than a 64MB Radeon 8500LE.
