The Effect Of Desktop Effects On Graphics Performance

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The Effect Of Desktop Effects On Graphics Performance

Earlier this month I published an article with benchmarks of the Gaming/Graphics Performance On Unity, GNOME, KDE, Xfce. Now, however, there's a much larger comparison, including results from OpenBox, Lubuntu, GNOME classic, and other desktop alternatives...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA2NDA

[Tgui]

Haters gonna hate but I'll stick with 2D Unity.

[Malizor]

It may be interesting to do some more Compiz benchmarks after setting the "Unredirect Fullscreen Windows" option (Composite plugin in CCSM). I don't know why it's not enabled by default, though.


Otherwise, a very recent patch claims to double Compiz CPU performance. It did not reached Ubuntu yet, but it should improve the poor Compiz performance that we see here.

[Malizor]

It may be interesting to do some more Compiz benchmarks after setting the "Unredirect Fullscreen Windows" option (Composite plugin in CCSM). I don't know why it's not enabled by default, though.


Otherwise, a very recent patch claims to double Compiz CPU performance. It did not reached Ubuntu yet, but it should improve the poor Compiz performance that we see here.

[ArchLinux]

Haters gonna hate but I'll stick with 2D Unity.

I don't hate your decision I just hate the cliché of "haters gonna hate".

I was tired of it the first time I heard it.

[anbog]

Yay - 15 min of Phoronix fame
A few other notes about the tests, if anyone should want to know.

• All tests were done in full screen
• The test in standard Gnome showed to top Gnome panel over the full screen graphics
• Other graphics errors were present, but the same in all setups
• This was not done on a fresh install, but everyday-use laptop, before and after the upgrade to 12.04

I don't mind Unity that much either and used for several months. After that I switched to Gnome, and then to Gnome Classic (no FX). I need the openGL performance I can get from this old laptop for my work, and it seemed a bit faster in Gnome Classic. I guess I have a few more options now!

By the way, can anyone tell me how to make gluxmark run windowed through PTS?

[Tgui]

I don't hate your decision I just hate the cliché of "haters gonna hate".

I was tired of it the first time I heard it.

U mad bro?

[kokoko3k]

Yay - 15 min of Phoronix fame
A few other notes about the tests, if anyone should want to know.
[LIST][*]All tests were done in full screen

How could it be that kwin performed so poorly?
DId you make sure that unredirect fullscreen windows was active? i cannot see any performance difference with kwin unredirected vs openbox or even a totally unmanaged X server.

[anbog]

How could it be that kwin performed so poorly?
DId you make sure that unredirect fullscreen windows was active? i cannot see any performance difference with kwin unredirected vs openbox or even a totally unmanaged X server.

I'm sorry, but I don't know the answer to either of those questions. I try to get my OS to work for me, but I'm still slightly noobish in the world of linux. So I didn't do anything special - just installed the different desktops and tested them as they were. Simply because that is how I use them

If you tell me how to make sure I unredirect fullscreen windows (and if it's fairly easy to do), I'll can test it tomorrow on the same machine.

[RealNC]

I'm sorry, but I don't know the answer to either of those questions. I try to get my OS to work for me, but I'm still slightly noobish in the world of linux. So I didn't do anything special - just installed the different desktops and tested them as they were. Simply because that is how I use them

If you tell me how to make sure I unredirect fullscreen windows (and if it's fairly easy to do), I'll can test it tomorrow on the same machine.

System Settings -> Desktop Effects -> "Advanced" tab -> "Suspend desktop effects for fullscreen windows" checkbox.