Part 2: 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?

[rvdboston]

you should also add test case for thin black lines using stock pen. Huge speed difference. 3 year old laptop intel IGP can draw ~100k lines/sec on VIsta 32 bit, while my new ATI 5750 can barely draw 4.5k lines/sec on Win7 64bit. About 20 times sllower. Simply amazing.

 

[swimrz]

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 138889 chars/sec
Line: 50000 lines/sec
Polygon: 13474 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 11429 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 4010 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 29904 operations/sec
Stretching: 286 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 10423 splines/sec
Score: 3010

GeForce 8600 GT, driver 196.21, Intel E2160, XP SP3 no theme

 

[GearUp]

Vista scores higher under performance and scores are higher, particularly Arc/Ellipse.
DG45ID with GMA 4500HD onboard graphics, Vista 64-bit, 4GB 800 MHz DDR2 RAM

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE
Text: 31075 chars/sec
Line: 49751 lines/sec
Polygon: 16840 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 2876 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 19275 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 6837 operations/sec
Stretching: 377 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 27949 splines/sec
Score: 1728

965WH Vista 64-bit, 2.13 GHz Core 2 Duo E 6400, GMA 3000, 4GB 533/667 RAM

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE
Text: 30030 chars/sec
Line: 35311 lines/sec
Polygon: 10895 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 1610 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 13473 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 3208 operations/sec
Stretching: 346 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 22727 splines/sec
Score: 1315

 

[Gonemad]

Here goes mine, with a 5870 ATI card running with Aero enabled on Win 7 64 bit. Note the total irregularity of the benchmark, with freshly installed 10.2 Catalyst Drivers, as of February 19, 2010. Note that several others windows were minimized at the time the benchmark was run, if that's supposed to affect anything. My benchmark could be considered "typical use" instead of "going for the golden overclocked prize" of sorts. Note also the DIB buffering test was run with all windows maximized on background, what causes some of the results, to say the least, abysmal. Running a Core i7 920 with 12 freaking gigs of RAM didn´t help any bit, either. I noticed my results are on par with most people, but most of the results are lower, even if within a small range. Note also, it was run from a 1920x1200 desktop. Note blitting and polygons on direct drawing.


BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 25063 chars/sec
Line: 24810 lines/sec
Polygon: 9934 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 4094 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 8199 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 10465 operations/sec
Stretching: 1664 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 17310 splines/sec
Score: 1301

BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT

Text: 20268 chars/sec
Line: 58388 lines/sec
Polygon: 8582 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 957 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 10984 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 4456 operations/sec
Stretching: 339 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 20117 splines/sec
Score: 1196

 

[GearUp]

The relevance of these scores for cutting edge display might be suggested by the lack of affect superimposition (2.5D) of the benchmark has on the test area on some runs (remember click-through with XP transparency?). Nevertheless, what 4500HD board did they use (see Arc/Ellipse above). Graphics cards still help stretch and primitive rectangle.

 

[nforce4max]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9fVktiuatM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4iKpB6Dt-Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWGRWprEwk

"They were so fast, it was kinda ridiculous"

 

[nforce4max]

3DFX Voodoo 5500 200mhz (sli enabled, agp version) 550mhx AMD K6-2 320mb ram Win XP pro sp2

Text: 5018 chars/sec
Line: 3186 lines/sec
Polygon: 803 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 756 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 1571 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 1876 operations/sec
Stretching: 8 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 2110 splines/sec
Score: 183

 

[Guest]

So here is the leaked Catalyst 10.3 Preview build...
Both versions are tested with the same system.

CPU: Core i7 860
RAM: 4GB DDR3-1600
M/B: P7P55D
GPU: HD 5770
OS: Windows 7 Professional x64, Aero enabled

[Catalyst 10.2]
BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 45126 chars/sec
Line: 4302 lines/sec
Polygon: 1449 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 7770 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 2844 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 13695 operations/sec
Stretching: 433 operations/sec
Splines/Bezier: 3827 splines/sec
Score: 1091

[Catalyst 10.3 Preview]
BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 43328 chars/sec
Line: 62422 lines/sec
Polygon: 8013 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 8271 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 13189 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 13639 operations/sec
Stretching: 421 operations/sec
Splines/Bezier: 26490 splines/sec
Score: 1897

Impressive.
Looks like we don't need to wait that long, and it's worth for waiting.

 

[etittel]

Fascinating to learn why my translation of Part 2 took such a long while to show up on the site, and how ATI responded to the feedback and numbers from the German Tom's testers. It's great to see the system working in positive directions for a change, and I'm glad to have been a part of it.

--Ed--

 

[vilio]

[citation][nom]helle040[/nom]Rdaeon 4670, amd 7750be, winxp, drivers 10.1, resolutie 1280x1024, 32bitText: 45746line: 40508Splines/beziers: 20466Poygon: 322Rectangle: 1954Arc/E.: 3494Biting: 2406Stretching: 211Score: 1150[/citation]

Interesting. Radeon 3850 should be good competitor to 4670.
My computer is almost similar:
Athlon X2 7750@2.8, ATI Radeon 3850 512MB, Catalyst 10.1, WinXp, 1680x1050.
But look on results:

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 145349 chars/sec
Line: 40344 lines/sec
Polygon: 18371 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 11429 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 10739 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 40000 operations/sec
Stretching: 298 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 21993 splines/sec
Score: 3476

BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT

Text: 50761 chars/sec
Line: 60386 lines/sec
Polygon: 11228 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 1297 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 13387 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 1777 operations/sec
Stretching: 250 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 27233 splines/sec
Score: 1714

 

[Guest]

Why is the blitting performance so poor under Win7 with all Radeon HD cards?

The Windows XP drivers are 16 times (!) faster in direct BitBlt operations than the Windows 7 junk they offer now as drivers.

Direct blitting performance affects windowed Direct3D applications reducing their speed (framerate) noticeably.
Just try to run a windowed app e.g. an emulator in Windows 7 32-bit and compare the average uncapped framerate with WinXP SP3.

Now switch to the OpenGL renderer and compare the Direct3D (or DirectDraw) performance with OpenGL. OpenGL is way faster than Direct3D on Windows 7.

But under Windows XP, Direct 3D is even faster - much faster than even OpenGL on Windows 7.

ATI/AMD, please fix your drivers. It's embarrasing that a dinosaur card such as the Radeon 8500 LE beats the snot out of all your Radeon HD series.

 

[Guest]

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 24378 chars/sec
Line: 37444 lines/sec
Polygon: 9246 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 4341 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 8129 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 8255 operations/sec
Stretching: 1665 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 22297 splines/sec
Score: 1376

Windows 7 x64 Ultimate Build 7100, Intel Q6600, NVidia 8800GT 196.21 Jan 11, 2010 drivers

BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT

Text: 24534 chars/sec
Line: 68213 lines/sec
Polygon: 13242 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 1568 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 18295 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 6927 operations/sec
Stretching: 674 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 27390 splines/sec
Score: 1660

 

[clinamen_1]

What's the basic setup consist of? I see no explanation for it.

 

[bigbadger]

I have installed 10.2 hotfix on my 2600HD Pro 512Mb AGP card with Win 7 Ultimate and after some issues got it to work - eventually. However every time I use an Aero theme I get a corrupted display in the Theme areas. Does anyone know if this was better in 10.1

 

[dvwjr]

System #1:
**********************************************
BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 10356 chars/sec
Line: 26743 lines/sec
Polygon: 21692 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 9770 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 10158 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 48497 operations/sec
Stretching: 150 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 12825 splines/sec
Score: 1703


BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT

Text: 17781 chars/sec
Line: 32538 lines/sec
Polygon: 9390 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 1120 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 10491 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 910 operations/sec
Stretching: 133 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 17391 splines/sec
Score: 954

System:
****************************
Windows XP (SP2)
Intel D925XCV2 desktop board
Intel Pentium 4 (672) 3.8GHz
3 GB RAM
nVidia GF-7950 (BFG) PCIe, 256MB RAM, nVidia Drivers 91.47




System #2
*******************************************
BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 13587 chars/sec
Line: 15432 lines/sec
Polygon: 12422 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 4000 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 7112 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 748 operations/sec
Stretching: 281 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 12547 splines/sec
Score: 829


BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT

Text: 24038 chars/sec
Line: 8892 lines/sec
Polygon: 857 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 87 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 1351 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 353 operations/sec
Stretching: 24 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 7003 splines/sec
Score: 463

System:
*****************
Windows 98SE
AOpen AX6BC (440BX) motherboard
Intel 1.4GHz Tualatin Celeron (PowerLeap Adapter)
768MB ECC RAM
nVidia FX-5950 Ultra AGP, 256MB RAM, nVidia Drivers v82.69


Now of course some of the above benchmarks can not compare to the results
of the test system CPU specification of an Intel Core 2 Q6600 3.2GHz CPU,
however these slower CPUs stay in the ballpark of the newest GPUs...



dvwjr

 

[ordcestus]

[citation][nom]gamerk316[/nom]*Sigh*, again, why I prefer OpenGL instead; having two seperate operation pipelines for 2d/3d space is just madness...[/citation]
I second that. Open G always seems more stable and practical than any of the "directs"

 

[juanpabloceva]

hello friends, I leave a video where they can see perfectly the delay and 2D speed difference between Windows XP and Windows 7. I simply shot the vertical motion to move the screen in Windows Live Photo Gallery is very visible and the difference between Windows 7 with AERO enabled and Windows XP. Even the Windows 7 Aero disabled has a significant slow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zzKDHHevxs

 

[juanpabloceva]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zzKDHHevxs

 

[Guest]

CPU: Intel E2160 @1.80GHz
GPU: Gigabyte HD2600 XT
MB: Gigabyte EP35-DS3R
Ram: 2 gb @ 800
OS: Win Xp service pack 3

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 34412 chars/sec
Line: 40171 lines/sec
Polygon: 16269 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 3333 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 7768 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 20912 operations/sec
Stretching: 184 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 22070 splines/sec
Score: 1574

 

[SoccerCore11]

This also seems to be an issue in Linux. I have Ubuntu Karmic, and even on the lowest graphics settings, my 5870 slows my system down to stutters if I drag a window around. Sad when my nVidia 7900GS performed flawlessly. Can anyone verify this?

 

[clinamen_1]

Here's more performance numbers. Dual boot XP32 and win7 64.
AMD Athlon IIx4 630
Asus M4A77TD
nVidia 7300LE

XP

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 103093 chars/sec
Line: 56138 lines/sec
Polygon: 3216 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 1580 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 1418 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 4354 operations/sec
Stretching: 289 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 5654 splines/sec
Score: 1817

BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT

Text: 34771 chars/sec
Line: 64433 lines/sec
Polygon: 12193 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 1553 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 16324 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 1586 operations/sec
Stretching: 272 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 28441 splines/sec
Score: 1626

Win7 64

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 38139 chars/sec
Line: 30921 lines/sec
Polygon: 5463 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 1523 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 7992 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 4240 operations/sec
Stretching: 590 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 14535 splines/sec
Score: 1159

BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT

Text: 54348 chars/sec
Line: 87413 lines/sec
Polygon: 13986 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 1783 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 20816 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 5342 operations/sec
Stretching: 655 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 34843 splines/sec
Score: 2250

Improvement perhaps bur with what? The 7300 is years old yet even the GT285 suffers in some departments and it's pushing $400!

 

[Joshatdot]

[Display]
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) 8650 Triple-Core Processor (2300 MHz)
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit
DirectX version: 11.0
GPU processor: GeForce 9600 GT
Driver version: 196.21
CUDA Cores: 64
Memory interface: 256-bit
Total available graphics memory: 2303 MB
Dedicated video memory: 512 MB
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 1791 MB
Video BIOS version: 62.94.21.00.00
IRQ: 17
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2

[Components]
nvCplUI.exe 2.8.290.13 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvWSS.dll 6.14.11.9621 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvViTvS.dll 6.14.11.9621 NVIDIA Video Server
nvMoblS.dll 6.14.11.9621 NVIDIA Mobile Server
NVSTVIEW.EXE 7.17.11.9621 NVIDIA GeForce 3D Vision
NVSTTEST.EXE 7.17.11.9621 NVIDIA 3D Vision Test Application
NVSTRES.DLL 7.17.11.9621 NVIDIA 3D Vision Module (0)
NVMCTRAY.DLL 8.17.11.9621 NVIDIA Media Center Library
nvDispS.dll 6.14.11.9621 NVIDIA Display Server
NVCPL.DLL 8.17.11.9621 NVIDIA Compatible Windows7 Display driver, Version 196.21
PhysX 09.09.1112 NVIDIA PhysX
NVCUDA.DLL 8.17.11.9621 NVIDIA CUDA 3.0.1 driver
nvGameS.dll 6.14.11.9621 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server



BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 27624 chars/sec
Line: 37416 lines/sec
Polygon: 3097 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 3896 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 6322 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 5254 operations/sec
Stretching: 319 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 21436 splines/sec
Score: 1105



BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT

Text: 22573 chars/sec
Line: 69670 lines/sec
Polygon: 12736 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 1498 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 16606 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 5120 operations/sec
Stretching: 591 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 23310 splines/sec
Score: 1531

 

[jippers]

Can anyone download the benchmark anymore? I would like to run it but the download keeps timing out on me.

 

[rolanox]

Test was run under normal desktop operation.
OS: XP SP3
CPU: Core 2 E8600
GPU: GeForce 8800 GT

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 177936 chars/sec
Line: 56138 lines/sec
Polygon: 31217 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 25126 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 4624 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 38551 operations/sec
Stretching: 329 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 23020 splines/sec
Score: 4363

BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT

Text: 39032 chars/sec
Line: 81345 lines/sec
Polygon: 14276 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 1413 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 17973 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 2033 operations/sec
Stretching: 274 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 31221 splines/sec
Score: 1856

 

[jippers]

Thanks for fixing the download!

Intel P8400/8GB DDR2-1066/Asus P5QL Pro
Radeon 4550 Catalyst 9.11
Vista Enterprise 64bit Aero Enabled

Buffered:

Text: 46083 chars/sec
Line: 59078 lines/sec
Polygon: 19730 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 3352 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 22852 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 8582 operations/sec
Stretching: 562 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 33807 splines/sec
Score: 2184

Not Buffered:

Text: 30600 chars/sec
Line: 82463 lines/sec
Polygon: 15686 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 1816 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 21711 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 8469 operations/sec
Stretching: 495 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 33135 splines/sec
Score: 1973