Curiosity: A small Benchmark

[P4Man]

Just for your info, all tests on AXP 2500+, 1.5 GB
using only 1 CRT:
800x600 =0.84 seconds (whoohoo record holder 😛)
1024x786 =1.1 seconds
1280x1024=1.5 s
1600x1200=2.0 s

Enabling second monitor (the app doesnt show up there, I'm not cloning, I expand my desktop to the second monitor):

800x600 =1.1 seconds
1024x786 =1.5 seconds
1280x1024=2.1s
1600x1200=2.6s

I'm sure you can spot the pattern
Maybe you could try disabling the visualisation ? I would guess it takes up considerable more time than the calculations.

Either way, I wouldnt base a purchasing decission on this benchmark 😉

= The views stated herein are my personal views, and not necessarily the views of my wife. =

 

[TheRod]

The othr thing i noticed is that when you run your little apps. a couple of time in a row, it's getting drawn faster. On my system it stabilized after 3 run. Maybe, you should fore screen size (let's say 800x600) and force the redraw 10 times. This would give better results (at least more reliable).

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[Asymal]

3.67 seconds
2x 2.4GHz P4 XEON @ 1280x1024

I agree with the posts above, it does appear to have different results for the first 3 tests- after than it 'levels' out.

 

[jclw]

4.562secs @ 1280x1024

It's always exactly the same speed for me.

*Dual PIII-800 @900 i440BX and Tualeron 1.2 @1.7 i815*

 

[SpaceDonkey]

Crashes and burns on my computer.

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I am severly limited in what my mind can perceive.

 

[Atolsammeek]

Well give me a Few days. Untel my Laptop comes. I try this test.

 

[why]

1.63 on Mobile AXP 1700+ @ 1024 X 768

 

[slvr_phoenix]

I got 1.2s on a NWA 2.0GHz with 1GB RAM.

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[slvr_phoenix]

...Of course that was at 640x480. :O

At 800x600 it was 1.5s.
At 1024x768 it was 1.9s.
At 1280x1024 it was 2.7s.
And at 1600x1200 it was 3.2s.

It also performed the best at 32bpp. It was slightly slower at 24bpp, even a little slower than that at 16bpp, and remarkably slower at 8bpp. The funny thing is that my video card is a Matrox G450, hardly a modern card. Actually I was surprised that my card even had 32bpp as an option. :O

Come to think of it, I probably should have closed Winamp before running the bench. Heh heh. Oh well. Winamp uses less than 1% of the CPU anyway, so it'd probably make little difference.

<pre><b><font color=red>"Build a man a fire and he's warm for the rest of the evening.
Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life." - Steve Taylor</font color=red></b></pre><p>