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Period Comparison of Onyx(1) IR and Commodity Graphics - Page 1

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Ran across this web page <with a date of August 2000> that does some limited comparisons of the triangles per second and fill rate performance of an IR equipped Onyx( 1 ) and several period PCs with commodity graphics cards running linux. While the author acknowledges the tests weren't meant to be anything other than a superficial comparison < "The exact numbers given by tenmillion are almost as meaningless as a CPU's MIPS rating, but they do give some idea of the relative performance of the different systems, and are also good for seeing the effect of different options (triangle size, texturing, lighting, etc). >, I found it interesting.

http://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/CAVE/linux/speed/

A few more semi-related pages by the same author: http://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/CAVE/

I mentioned a similar comparison by the same author in this nekochan thread: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=15636&

If you haven't already, be sure to check out the links to running Quake2 in an SGI Cave system: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=15636&p=122514&#p122514

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Interesting articles, thanks for sharing

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Nice numbers for old SGI's.
O2 was only 180MHz R5k and it catch modern graphics with mutch faster processors.

Just one think - can someone compile tenmilion test? I'd like to run it on my O2 witch is on the other side of speed spectrum to see difference. Thanks

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tomo wrote:

Nice numbers for old SGI's.
O2 was only 180MHz R5k and it catch modern graphics with mutch faster processors.

Not to mention that it looks like some if not most of the IRISes were memory-starved (96MB for IRIX 6.5? 256 is better...)

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The original source code to tenmillion.c is here:

http://www.oss.sgi.com/projects/performer/mail/info-performer/perf-96-11/0181.html

I got it to compile and run on my Linux box by changing the call to gettimeofday() to include a timezone struct and by changing the return type of main() to int. I'll try it on my SGI as soon as I get some caffeine into my system tomorrow morning... 8-)

If anyone's interested, to compile it (on Linux) I used:

gcc -Wall -L/usr/X11/lib -lGL -lGLU tenmillion.c -o tenmillion.c.exe

The -Wall switch is optional, but interesting. I always use it when I compile other people's code... :mrgreen:

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Compiled with

Code:

c99 -n32 -mips4 -OPT:Olimit=0:roundoff=3 -TARG:platform=IP27:proc=r10000 -Ofast  tenmillion.c  -o tenmillion -lGL -lGLU -lfastm  -lm -lX11

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vishnu wrote:

".c.exe". Haha. Have you been programming in windows for too long? -o tenmillion would have been fine, and probably wouldn't have caused me to have a morning chuckle.

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Wrote the following at Jan. 9, 2010, 11:08 a.m...

Yeah, I'm a Visual C++ goit from way back. :oops:

But that doesn't alter the fact that consistent filename extensions are a good idea. I've always wondered Unix uses them for it's shared objects but not executables. Just to be different from Microsoft? I find it a tremendous convenience, for example if I want a list of all the programs I've compiled in $HOME all I have to do is `find ~ -name \*exe` ...

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vishnu wrote:

if I want a list of all the programs I've compiled in $HOME all I have to do is `find ~ -name \*exe` ...

Code:

find ~ -exec file {} \; | fgrep executable

There is no excuse for putting .exe at the end of UNIX executable names

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Oh right! I suppose next you're going to be telling me I shouldn't be renaming all my .so's to dll's... :twisted:

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Quote:

find ~ -exec file {} \; | fgrep executable

I'd prefer find ~ -perm -1

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canavan wrote:

Quote:

find ~ -exec file {} \; | fgrep executable

I'd prefer find ~ -perm -1

This will also return directories and other files which happen to have the executable bit set (e.g. shared libraries, scripts, ...).

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ShadeOfBlue wrote:

canavan wrote:

Quote:

find ~ -exec file {} \; | fgrep executable

I'd prefer find ~ -perm -1

This will also return directories and other files which happen to have the executable bit set (e.g. shared libraries, scripts, ...).

Code:

find . -type f -perm -1

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Output from my work machine (dual core Athlon X2 5600 + Nvidia Quadro 3450):

Code:

./ten light texture zbuffer area=850

running on xxxxx (Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI/PCI/SSE2) Mon Jan 11 13:11:03 2010

visual: 0x29

850 pixel triangles, 39 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: n3s t2s v3f

flat shading, zbuffer on, light on, texture on

window size: 848 x 848

test time: 1.947 secs.

time per frame: 0.196 msecs.

geometry rate: 1594743 triangles/sec

fill rate: 1355.532 Mpixels/sec

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dexter1 wrote:

ShadeOfBlue wrote:

canavan wrote:

Quote:

find ~ -exec file {} \; | fgrep executable

I'd prefer find ~ -perm -1

This will also return directories and other files which happen to have the executable bit set (e.g. shared libraries, scripts, ...).

Code:

find . -type f -perm -1

This will still return shared libraries and other files with the exec bit set

I considered all these options before posting my version with 'file', which returns only actual executables (and possibly shell scripts, depending on the version of the 'file' program used).

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I finally got around to running on my own Onyx which is similar but has only one RM6-16 instead of two RM6-64s.

default options:

Code:

$ ./tenmillion.bin

running on Aldebaran (IRS/M/1/16/4) Wed Jan 13 13:50:29 2010

visual: 0x4e

50 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: v3f

flat shading, zbuffer off, light off, texture off

test time: 1.998 secs.

geometry rate: 2377705 triangles/sec

fill rate: 118.885 Mpixels/sec

$ ./tenmillion.bin texture light smooth

running on Aldebaran (IRS/M/1/16/4) Wed Jan 13 13:56:57 2010

visual: 0x4e

50 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: n3s t2s v3f

smooth shading, zbuffer off, light on, texture on

test time: 1.995 secs.

geometry rate: 2010655 triangles/sec

fill rate: 100.533 Mpixels/sec

to match the settings used in the benchmark page (the extra RM really makes a difference!).
12,100,1000 pixels, without and with special effects:

Code:

$ ./tenmillion.bin area=12

running on Aldebaran (IRS/M/1/16/4) Wed Jan 13 14:26:19 2010

visual: 0x4e

12 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 2 strips

vertex data: v3f

flat shading, zbuffer off, light off, texture off

test time: 2.000 secs.

geometry rate: 6014936 triangles/sec

fill rate: 72.179 Mpixels/sec

$ ./tenmillion.bin area=100

running on Aldebaran (IRS/M/1/16/4) Wed Jan 13 14:26:32 2010

visual: 0x4e

100 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: v3f

flat shading, zbuffer off, light off, texture off

test time: 2.000 secs.

geometry rate: 1433856 triangles/sec

fill rate: 143.386 Mpixels/sec

$ ./tenmillion.bin area=1000

running on Aldebaran (IRS/M/1/16/4) Wed Jan 13 14:26:44 2010

visual: 0x4e

1000 pixel triangles, 36 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: v3f

flat shading, zbuffer off, light off, texture off

test time: 1.999 secs.

geometry rate: 198800 triangles/sec

fill rate: 198.800 Mpixels/sec

$ ./tenmillion.bin texture light smooth area=12

running on Aldebaran (IRS/M/1/16/4) Wed Jan 13 14:27:46 2010

visual: 0x4e

12 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 2 strips

vertex data: n3s t2s v3f

smooth shading, zbuffer off, light on, texture on

test time: 1.987 secs.

geometry rate: 2935215 triangles/sec

fill rate: 35.223 Mpixels/sec

$ ./tenmillion.bin texture light smooth area=100

running on Aldebaran (IRS/M/1/16/4) Wed Jan 13 14:27:58 2010

visual: 0x4e

100 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: n3s t2s v3f

smooth shading, zbuffer off, light on, texture on

test time: 1.988 secs.

geometry rate: 1231437 triangles/sec

fill rate: 123.144 Mpixels/sec

$ ./tenmillion.bin texture light smooth area=1000

running on Aldebaran (IRS/M/1/16/4) Wed Jan 13 14:28:11 2010

visual: 0x4e

1000 pixel triangles, 36 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: n3s t2s v3f

smooth shading, zbuffer off, light on, texture on

test time: 2.012 secs.

geometry rate: 171486 triangles/sec

fill rate: 171.486 Mpixels/sec

Code:

$ /usr/gfx/gfxinfo

Graphics board 0 is "KONAS" graphics.

Managed (":0.0") 1280x1024

Display has 2 channels

4 GEs (of 4), occmask = 0x0f

4MB external BEF ram, 32bit path

1 RM6 board (of 1) 1/0/0/0

Texture Memory: 16MB/-/-/-

Medium pixel depth

32K cmap

Sirius video option detected

Channel 0:

Origin = (0,0)

Video Output: 1280 pixels, 1024 lines, 60.00Hz (1280x1024_60.vfo)

Channel 1:

Channel's Source Size: 1280 pixels, 1024 lines; Origin = (0,0)

Video Output: 640 pixels, 486 lines, 29.97Hz (640x486_30i.vfo)

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recondas
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As a comparison, here's the same tests on an Onyx InfinitePerformance with V12 graphics and 8 700MHz processors <the test runs on a single processor>. The tests were run without stopping any normal background processes or typical desktop applications <FireFox was running so I could cut-n-paste sybrfreq's test commands>. An hinv -vm and gfxinfo for the system are here .

Default options:

Code:

12% ./tenmillion.bin

running on electraglide (VPRO/B/128) Wed Jan 13 07:54:17 2010

visual: 0x49

50 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: v3f

flat shading, zbuffer off, light off, texture off

test time: 1.962 secs.

geometry rate: 5695627 triangles/sec

fill rate: 284.781 Mpixels/sec

electraglide 13% ./tenmillion.bin texture light smooth

running on electraglide (VPRO/B/128) Wed Jan 13 07:55:04 2010

visual: 0x49

50 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: n3s t2s v3f

smooth shading, zbuffer off, light on, texture on

test time: 2.003 secs.

geometry rate: 3334624 triangles/sec

fill rate: 166.731 Mpixels/sec

The tenmillion benchmark tests from the article tables 1 and 2>:

Code:

electraglide 14% ./tenmillion.bin area=12

running on electraglide (VPRO/B/128) Wed Jan 13 07:55:33 2010

visual: 0x49

12 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 2 strips

vertex data: v3f

flat shading, zbuffer off, light off, texture off

test time: 2.000 secs.

geometry rate: 13747075 triangles/sec

fill rate: 164.965 Mpixels/sec

electraglide 15% ./tenmillion.bin area=100

running on electraglide (VPRO/B/128) Wed Jan 13 07:55:58 2010

visual: 0x49

100 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: v3f

flat shading, zbuffer off, light off, texture off

test time: 2.001 secs.

geometry rate: 3083382 triangles/sec

fill rate: 308.338 Mpixels/sec

electraglide 16% ./tenmillion.bin area=1000

running on electraglide (VPRO/B/128) Wed Jan 13 07:56:12 2010

visual: 0x49

1000 pixel triangles, 36 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: v3f

flat shading, zbuffer off, light off, texture off

test time: 1.998 secs.

geometry rate: 336738 triangles/sec

fill rate: 336.738 Mpixels/sec

electraglide 17% ./tenmillion.bin texture light smooth area=12

running on electraglide (VPRO/B/128) Wed Jan 13 07:56:24 2010

visual: 0x49

12 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 2 strips

vertex data: n3s t2s v3f

smooth shading, zbuffer off, light on, texture on

test time: 2.003 secs.

geometry rate: 6130902 triangles/sec

fill rate: 73.571 Mpixels/sec

electraglide 18% ./tenmillion.bin texture light smooth area=100

running on electraglide (VPRO/B/128) Wed Jan 13 07:56:42 2010

visual: 0x49

100 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: n3s t2s v3f

smooth shading, zbuffer off, light on, texture on

test time: 1.999 secs.

geometry rate: 1939448 triangles/sec

fill rate: 193.945 Mpixels/sec

electraglide 19% ./tenmillion.bin texture light smooth area=1000

running on electraglide (VPRO/B/128) Wed Jan 13 07:57:19 2010

visual: 0x49

1000 pixel triangles, 36 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: n3s t2s v3f

smooth shading, zbuffer off, light on, texture on

test time: 1.999 secs.

geometry rate: 206274 triangles/sec

fill rate: 206.274 Mpixels/sec

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canavan wrote:

Compiled with

Code:

c99 -n32 -mips4 -OPT:Olimit=0:roundoff=3 -TARG:platform=IP27:proc=r10000 -Ofast  tenmillion.c  -o tenmillion -lGL -lGLU -lfastm  -lm -lX11

Thanks many times - I'v not noticed since now that you compiled it!

I'l add results ASAP.

Code:

running on smetiacik (CRIME) Thu Feb 18 08:47:20 2010

visual: 0x33

50 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: v3f

flat shading, zbuffer off, light off, texture off

test time: 2.008 secs.

geometry rate: 1117160 triangles/sec

fill rate: 55.858 Mpixels/sec

-bash-4.0$ ./tenmilion.bin texture light smooth

running on smetiacik (CRIME) Thu Feb 18 08:47:56 2010

visual: 0x33

50 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: n3s t2s v3f

smooth shading, zbuffer off, light on, texture on

test time: 2.010 secs.

geometry rate: 391204 triangles/sec

fill rate: 19.560 Mpixels/sec

-bash-4.0$ ./tenmilion.bin area=12

running on smetiacik (CRIME) Thu Feb 18 08:48:39 2010

visual: 0x33

12 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 2 strips

vertex data: v3f

flat shading, zbuffer off, light off, texture off

test time: 2.005 secs.

geometry rate: 2185646 triangles/sec

fill rate: 26.228 Mpixels/sec

-bash-4.0$ ./tenmilion.bin area=100

running on smetiacik (CRIME) Thu Feb 18 08:49:12 2010

visual: 0x33

100 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: v3f

flat shading, zbuffer off, light off, texture off

test time: 1.981 secs.

geometry rate: 618896 triangles/sec

fill rate: 61.890 Mpixels/sec

-bash-4.0$ ./tenmilion.bin area=1000

running on smetiacik (CRIME) Thu Feb 18 08:49:42 2010

visual: 0x33

1000 pixel triangles, 36 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: v3f

flat shading, zbuffer off, light off, texture off

test time: 1.971 secs.

geometry rate: 66195 triangles/sec

fill rate: 66.195 Mpixels/sec

-bash-4.0$ ./tenmilion.bin texture light smooth area=12

running on smetiacik (CRIME) Thu Feb 18 08:50:12 2010

visual: 0x33

12 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 2 strips

vertex data: n3s t2s v3f

smooth shading, zbuffer off, light on, texture on

test time: 2.006 secs.

geometry rate: 765094 triangles/sec

fill rate: 9.181 Mpixels/sec

-bash-4.0$ ./tenmilion.bin texture light smooth area=100

running on smetiacik (CRIME) Thu Feb 18 08:50:48 2010

visual: 0x33

100 pixel triangles, 90 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: n3s t2s v3f

smooth shading, zbuffer off, light on, texture on

test time: 1.991 secs.

geometry rate: 205448 triangles/sec

fill rate: 20.545 Mpixels/sec

-bash-4.0$ ./tenmilion.bin texture light smooth area=1000

running on smetiacik (CRIME) Thu Feb 18 08:51:04 2010

visual: 0x33

1000 pixel triangles, 36 triangles/strip, 1 strips

vertex data: n3s t2s v3f

smooth shading, zbuffer off, light on, texture on

test time: 1.978 secs.

geometry rate: 23734 triangles/sec

fill rate: 23.734 Mpixels/sec

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Wrote the following at Feb. 22, 2010, 3:22 p.m...

Has anybody compiled it for Windows, to try and see the numbers on a current ati/nvidia?

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