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

[flyinfinni]

Single Radeon HD 5750 Catalyst 10.3 beta drivers

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 54054 chars/sec
Line: 80214 lines/sec
Polygon: 13225 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 7040 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 17973 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 15858 operations/sec
Stretching: 1167 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 44326 splines/sec
Score: 2537

BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT

Text: 38491 chars/sec
Line: 136488 lines/sec
Polygon: 21731 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 2452 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 29104 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 9932 operations/sec
Stretching: 1041 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 45746 splines/sec
Score: 2789

 

[Guest]

Can somebody test a new i3/i5 (530/540/660/661) with the integrated GPU? I want to upgrade my system to Windows7-64 bits, mainly to be able to use more than 4 GB RAM for Photoshop. I think even a 530 without dedicated GPU would work well enough for me (I don't play games).
My current system: AMD Athlon X2 4200+, Matrox G450, XP prof 32-bits, 4 GB RAM, display 1280*1024

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 88810 chars/sec
Line: 5134 lines/sec
Polygon: 1572 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 522 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 5369 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 150 operations/sec
Stretching: 42 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 4588 splines/sec
Score: 1330

BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT

Text: 43821 chars/sec
Line: 46613 lines/sec
Polygon: 8458 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 1088 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 11854 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 2922 operations/sec
Stretching: 395 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 23105 splines/sec
Score: 1469

 

[nmatthis]

It really would be interesting if someone would benchmark a system with a QuadroNVS card. The Quadro series cards are intended for drawing 2D graphics well for CAD work and such (QuadroNVS is supposedly intended for workstation 3D graphics as well). Would love to know how they stack up.

 

[MIKE-STAMP]

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 69348 chars/sec
Line: 18537 lines/sec
Polygon: 2526 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 313 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 3035 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 945 operations/sec
Stretching: 7 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 9456 splines/sec
Score: 1170

win2k, 800 athlon, rage128
Text: 69348 ??? My computer seems to like text.

 

[Guest]

With all of Nvidia Fermi's calculation optimization I wonder how the new 480/470 cards would do on the subject of 2d?

 

[gabsoftware]

Okay so here is my configuration :

Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 @ 2Ghz
2 Go DDR II
ATI Mobility Radeon HD3650
Catalyst for Mobility 10.3b, Power Play set on "optimize for performance"
Windows 7 64 bits with Aero activated
No background application

Each test executed 4 times, the nearest test from average of four has been retained.



BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 21079 chars/sec
Line: 27164 lines/sec
Polygon: 2116 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 3437 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 5263 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 4373 operations/sec
Stretching: 307 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 17905 splines/sec
Score: 879

BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT

Text: 21805 chars/sec
Line: 53116 lines/sec
Polygon: 11082 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 1302 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 15047 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 5807 operations/sec
Stretching: 572 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 23310 splines/sec
Score: 1385

It's quite disapointing, especially compared to integrated graphics solutions ! I am waiting for updated drivers.

 

[Guest]

Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3166 MHz
Physical Memory : 4096 MB (2 x 2048 DDR2-SDRAM )
Video Card : ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series (ASUS EAH4850) 512mb
Monitor Type : BenQ BenQ E2420HD - 24 inches
Operating System : Win XP Pro SP3
DirectX : Version 9.0c (March 2009)
Catalyst Ver: 10.1

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 62735 chars/sec
Line: 55494 lines/sec
Polygon: 10408 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 2628 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 16166 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 5024 operations/sec
Stretching: 372 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 32648 splines/sec
Score: 2019

I use CorelDraw and other 2D software a lot for work.
No looking forward to the jump to WIN7 in about 6 months

 

[Guest]

HD 5850, i5 750, H57

Text: 43328 chars/sec
Line: 64103 lines/sec
Polygon: 10625 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 7819 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 13355 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 11166 operations/sec
Stretching: 376 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 34282 splines/sec
Score: 1981

 

[Guest]

This is ridiculous. You guys spent big $$$ on high-end graphics adapters and then some guy with a 12 year-old machine comes and scores higher than you in 2D (Athlon 800, Rage 128).

Hardware and software vendors should be ass-kicked for shipping such a lame software/driver stack.

Btw, here's my score (Geforce 8200 onboard with shared-memory) running Linux/Wine:

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 87873 chars/sec
Line: 172018 lines/sec
Polygon: 8803 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 2564 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 13963 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 6231 operations/sec
Stretching: 616 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 68166 splines/sec
Score: 3240

BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT

Text: 46512 chars/sec
Line: 180505 lines/sec
Polygon: 8893 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 2682 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 14176 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 6112 operations/sec
Stretching: 625 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 51467 splines/sec
Score: 2607

 

[Guest]

Ok so I came across this great article after some comments posted on another forum. Since I just bought a HD5770 and I am running updated Cat. 10.4 drivers I decided my two systems here to give it a shot:

System 1: Athlon II x4 620, HD5770, Win7x64 + Aero, Catalyst 10.4

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE
Text: 31289 chars/sec
Line: 48247 lines/sec
Polygon: 12048 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 6217 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 7891 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 3107 operations/sec
Stretching: 288 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 26681 splines/sec
Score: 1445

BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT
Text: 22482 chars/sec
Line: 69380 lines/sec
Polygon: 10965 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 1396 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 16319 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 4311 operations/sec
Stretching: 418 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 27663 splines/sec
Score: 1512

System 2: Athlon XP3000+, FX5200, WinXP 32 SP3 cleartype, Forceware 81.85

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE
Text: 59242 chars/sec
Line: 14954 lines/sec
Polygon: 4683 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 2712 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 10223 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 6652 operations/sec
Stretching: 56 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 10757 splines/sec
Score: 1342

BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT
Text: 22852 chars/sec
Line: 34161 lines/sec
Polygon: 4898 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 538 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 6808 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 376 operations/sec
Stretching: 86 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 16412 splines/sec
Score: 853

It seems that most issues of the hotfix are included now, however the ageing Geforce FX5200 (which wasn't a great card by any means back in the day) wins just about as much tests as it loses, total shocker! Similar to the person above with the much older rage128, this computer likes text alot

 

[Guest]

radeon 2600XT, E6300/45nm, P45, 4GB, catalyst 9.9, WinXP/SP3

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE
Text: 17024 chars/sec
Line: 45290 lines/sec
Polygon: 16069 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 3308 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 14957 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 21053 operations/sec
Stretching: 379 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 34602 splines/sec
Score: 1668

 

[Guest]

This is interesting, I just ran across this and thought I'd try it out.

P4 Northwood 3.06, 2 GB ram, nvidia 7800 GS AGP 256MB, Windows XP Pro.

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 122850 chars/sec
Line: 31793 lines/sec
Polygon: 16138 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 6367 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 894 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 33333 operations/sec
Stretching: 92 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 2938 splines/sec
Score: 2511

BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT

Text: 18396 chars/sec
Line: 24120 lines/sec
Polygon: 3647 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 504 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 5307 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 363 operations/sec
Stretching: 74 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 13278 splines/sec
Score: 666

Scores for this card appear to be dramatically different from others posted here. Strange.

 

[Guest]

I feel foolish asking this but where is the link to download the Tom2d.exe file? I can't find it in any of the articles pages.

 

[biko1970]

[citation][nom]snemarch[/nom]Probably not the easiest thing to accelerate on a GPU - the prime candidates would be filled polys, rectangles (subset of polys) and blits (including stretched ones - easy to do with a 3D quad or two tris).Points, lines, bezier curves, arcs (and circles, a subset of arc), ellipses, unfilled polys/rectangles ... all those aren't easily/efficiently implemented with the core 3D primitive: filled polygons. Perhaps some of it can be efficiently implemented with shaders, but that's uncharted territory for me[/citation]

How can I know if my numbers are good?

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 68027 chars/sec
Line: 23882 lines/sec
Polygon: 14437 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 7852 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 16750 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 7494 operations/sec
Stretching: 458 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 16410 splines/sec
Score: 2000

BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT

Text: 24237 chars/sec
Line: 37212 lines/sec
Polygon: 9275 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 1112 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 10062 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 3967 operations/sec
Stretching: 320 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 16798 splines/sec
Score: 1095

 

[Guest]

Results (Athlon X2 240 2.8 GHz, Geforce 8200 onboard, Ubuntu 10.04, Wine, KDE 4.4.85, Nvidia 195.36.24):

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 83893 chars/sec
Line: 161987 lines/sec
Polygon: 9786 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 2655 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 11781 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 6179 operations/sec
Stretching: 597 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 62500 splines/sec
Score: 3054

 

[Guest]

I just bought a Sapphire 5870 which I'm having to return. Games and everything else appear fine but scrolling windows (bitblt) causes many small green and/or magenta squares.
http://cv32.com/artefacts.png

It seems likely to be related to this topic so I thought I'd mention it.

 

[replicatrapmouse]

OK I am jumping on this pretty late, but I'd like to compare my results of my ASUS G73jh i7 Q @ 1.73 Notebook with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD5870 GPU running Win7x64:

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 19048 chars/sec
Line: 3651 lines/sec
Polygon: 1136 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 6211 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 2330 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 8342 operations/sec
Stretching: 331 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 3232 splines/sec
Score: 633

BENCHMARK: DIB-BUFFER AND BLIT

Text: 17325 chars/sec
Line: 99206 lines/sec
Polygon: 15182 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 1752 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 18195 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 6853 operations/sec
Stretching: 558 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 24184 splines/sec
Score: 1711

So, my computer won't even open After Effects or DaVinci Resolve, and every time Photoshop opens it says it runs into issues with the GPU and is disabling enhancements. It seems like the same issue you guys were having in 2010, except my drivers are newly updated. I am so annoyed!!!

 

[junkieXL]

NVIDIA Quadio K2000, Win7 x64:

BENCHMARK: DIRECT DRAWING TO VISIBLE DEVICE

Text: 76220 chars/sec
Line: 125523 lines/sec
Polygon: 13225 polygons/sec
Rectangle: 16142 rects/sec
Arc/Ellipse: 26274 ellipses/sec
Blitting: 13557 operations/sec
Stretching: 1150 operations/sec
Splines/Bézier: 61767 splines/sec
Score: 3582

Surprisingly good, I might add.

 

[junkieXL]

(NVIDIA Quadro, of course, I can no longer even type, it seems :-/ )

 

[GearUp]

Scores have dropped a little over 3 1/2 years but Direct Drawing Polygon has plunged 74-89%, regardless of OS, with or without a card. Won't run in Win 8.1.

 

[GearUp]

Scores have dropped a little over 3 1/2 years but Direct Drawing Polygon has plunged 74-89%, regardless of OS, with or without a card. Won't run in Win 8.1.

 

[GearUp]

Scores have dropped a little after 3 1/2 years but Direct Drawing Polygon has plunged 74-89%, regardless of OS, with or without a card for me. The benchmark won't run in Win 8.1.