[Chimera-users] Benchmarks

[Mingfeng Yang]

Tried it last week. Finally, what I found out is that actually the 
non-proprietory driver from freedesktop project provide even better 
performance, so I just gave up ATI proprietory driver.


Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:

>See if the 8.18.6 drivers make a difference on system 2
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>>Benchmark 2:
>>  Computer: HP XW5500 workstation
>>  Graphics Card: ATI FireGL 8800 (128M memory)
>>  CPU: pentium-4 2.4GHz
>>  System Memory: 512M
>>  OS: Gentoo GNU/LINUX
>>  Driver for video card: ATI fglrx driver 8.14.30
>>  Chimera: version 1 build 2176
>>  Benchmark score:  surface 234  mesh 227  contour 142  solid 256  
>>recolor 107
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>>Something is confusing me. As you see that scores from benchmark 2 are 
>>higher than scores from benchmark 1. But in case that I want to save a 
>>protein structure as a png file, the rendering in system 1 is nearly two 
>>times faster. How can this happen?
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>>Best,
>>Mingfeng Yang
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