OGL Question

[markman]

I tested XSI2

[sabkarim]

The geforce4mx is not as good as a geforce3/geforce3ti 500, this could be it. Geforce4MX is basically a suped up geforce2 not a proper geforce4.

Laurence

[markman]

The system with the cheap Geforce4 is ~2.5 times faster than the system with the expensive Quadro2 Pro!!

Markus

[sabkarim]

Do you know if the realtime opengl is able to use both proccesors if not the athlon is twice as fast, that could be it.

Laurence

[meatlockerii]

I think there's a combination of possibilities on why the second system out performs the first.

here are some of my thougths -

1. XP's out perform even pentium 4. So naturally it will out perform P3's. I'm not sure if xsi is optimised for dual processors though.

2. The os may handle system resources differently. Although i think winXP is based on winNT there's bound to be some difference in the way they manage resources.

3. What type of ram is used in each machine? I assume your using DDR for the XP setup. But what about the P3?

4. The gfx card is also an important factor. Not really sure how a GF4MX compares to GF3 but it's bound to be slightly faster.

Just out of interest markman how did you bench mark your systems?

Generally i think the type of hardware is more responsible for the increase in performance and not the software.

[fuzy]

is the scene wireframe or shaded? due to the fact that the geforce is a game card it's very fast when showing shaded/textured geometry, but maybe a bit slower than the the highend cards for showing wires - in general the highend cards will display wireframe quite fast compared to the game cards. But the geforces are good value for the money - my old asus geforce1 used to outperform my mate's oxygen gvx1 ...

ivanp.

[markman]

I expected both sytems to be equal concerning OGL performance. The AMD is about twice as fast as the PIII, but the Quadro2Pro Card(1200