[rescue] Cross-Platform Graphic Benchmarks

[Michael Dombrowski]

On 9 May 2002 at 22:17, rescue-request at sunhelp.org wrote:

> > I just got my Elite3D m3 in and I'm pretty disappointed with its
> > performance. I'm beginning to think that if I want to do non-Intel
> > 3D then Sun is not the platform for me. I'm looking at machines like
> > HP's C240 with FX4 and SGI's Octane SI-SSE, but to tell the truth I
> > have no idea how these perform versus my U30 with Elite3D or
> > Creator3D. Anybody know of a site that has cross-platform OpenGL
> > benchmarks? I've looked at Spec but only found like 8 Intel-based
> 
> What mix of code are you trying to run?
> 
> The C3D/E3D are designed for shaded CAD.  They are quite fast for this
> use (my AXi/E3D was in the top 5 of the rendering Blenchmark list,
> topped only by SGI Onyx's and Onyx2's).
> 
> They have miserable texturing performance.  If you are doing extensive
> texturing and are frustrated by speed then you are unlikely to be
> happy with certain low end SGI boards (textureless SI/SSE, I2/Solid
> Impact, etc).

I will be doing mostly non-textured cad and such things. From quick 
tests the Elite3D feels much slower than our junky Windows machines 
at school. I've pretty much decided that I will be taking a Unix 
machine to college in September and would like to run a few games on 
it, so texturing is important. Plus I would like to teach myself 
OpenGL and do texturing. This is where my main complaint with the 
Elite3D/Creator3D is, it seems that a non-TRAM SGI won't be able to 
do textures fast enough for what I want either. So I'd really like a 
site where I can compare benchmarks for the various options. I'm 
leaning towards a HP C3600 with some sort of nice FX graphics but I 
really wanna know how it performs vs what I have and Octanes.

Mike