[ltp] Graphic Card | Benchmark | Pymol

[Pedro Ribeiro]

On 12 January 2012 11:34, Julian <julimoxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I recently bought a Lenovo ThinkPad X220 and installed Ubuntu 11.10 on it=
. I
> am doing some benchmarks of the graphical card with glxgears and these ar=
e
> the results I get :
>
> # glxgears
> Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. =A0The framerate should be
> approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
> 285 frames in 5.0 seconds =3D 56.877 FPS
> 295 frames in 5.0 seconds =3D 58.841 FPS
> 294 frames in 5.0 seconds =3D 58.781 FPS
> [...]
>
> Are these results ok ? To me, it looks like a poor performance.
>
> The monitor is a TFT Screen.
>
> I am using the latests Ubuntu PPA graphic drivers :
>
> ii =A0libdrm-intel1 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A02.=
4.29~oneiric~ppa3
> ii =A0libgl1-mesa-dev =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A07.11=
.2~oneiric~ppa1.2
> ii =A0libgl1-mesa-dri =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A07 .1=
1.2~oneiric~ppa1.2
> ii =A0libgl1-mesa-glx =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A07.11=
.2~oneiric~ppa1.2
> ii =A0libglu1-mesa =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 7.=
11.2~oneiric~ppa1.2
> ii =A0xserver-xorg-video-intel =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 2:2.17.0~oneir=
ic~ppa7
>
> The kernel is the default Ubuntu : 3.0.0-14-generic
>
> This is the relevant output I get when issuing "glxinfo | grep render" :
> OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile
> OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.11.2
> OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
>
> Could someone please tell me if those benchmarks are ok ?
>
>
> I am also having problems with some Molecular 3D software (PyMOL).
>
> Thank you very much for your answers!
> Julian
>

Hi Julian,

glx gears is not a benchmark, and it is slow when using KMS. If you
want to test 3D performance, you're better off using the Unigine
engine benchmarks. Please see
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Benchmarking for details.

Pedro