Radeon 3D Performance: Gallium3D vs. Classic Mesa

[liketostay]

Looking for suggestions on my latest mesa 7.9 build
./check_opengl.sh
[ 6.065115] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
[ 6.067101] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RV670 0x1002:0x9509).
[ 6.836597] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RV670 0x1002:0x9509).
[ 5.677907] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on R600 (HD2XXX,HD3XXX)
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on R600 (HD2XXX,HD3XXX)
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.9
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:
$ glxgears
1935 frames in 5.0 seconds = 386.972 FPS
is much lower than expected (~1800)

running 2.6.36-rc6-amd64. Built using git for pixman, cairo, drm, ddx.
Thanks in advance.

[Lynxeye]

Don't use glxgears as a benchmark. The framerate with DRI2 is very much limited by host task switches, so you will never see 1800 FPS with DRI2. In real OpenGL Apps you will see a much smaller to no performance hit. So glxgears says nothing in this case.

[liketostay]

Don't use glxgears as a benchmark. The framerate with DRI2 is very much limited by host task switches, so you will never see 1800 FPS with DRI2. In real OpenGL Apps you will see a much smaller to no performance hit. So glxgears says nothing in this case.

I forgot to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the right place for the 7.9 build. Now I get something more reasonable (from the xdemo directory). $ ./glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
6797 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1359.189 FPS
Thanks for hinting on that lower number. Which quick benchmark (not wine) do you recommend for a quick sanity check? (link would be great) Thanks.

[pingufunkybeat]

These are good and some of them are free: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Benchmarking