I just made a video instead to show what all I could squeeze out of an MDD G4 Mac @ 1.5 GHz and a Radeon 9600 card. Least to show we are on the same page as to what demo was benchmarked.

If you can sometime, make a video of your setup doing the quake 3 demo.

Quake III Benchmark Mac MDD @ 1.5 GHz w/ Radeon 9600

Well i have just run this now on my X5000 set up in MorphOS3.11

Using a Sapphire X1650Pro 512MB run under following perameters if this helps to dissect any scores further...

setenv TGLSYNC 0
flushlib tinygl.library

In Quake 3
r_primitives 2
timedemo 1
demo four

GL Driver default
GL Extensions ON
Colour Depth Default
Fullscreen ON
Lighting: Lightmap
Geometric DetaIl: Medium
Texture Quality 32 bit
Texture Filter: Trilinear.


640x480 resolution 1260 frames 6.5 seconds 193.8fps
800x600 resolution 1260 frames 8.0 seconds 158.4fps
1024x768 resolution 1260 frames 10.5 seconds 120.3 fps
1280x1024 resolution 1260 frames 14.21 seconds 88.9 fps





[ Edited by outrun1978 22.08.2018 - 10:04 ]

My AmigaOS 4.1FE result is for demo four.

1280x1024 = 104.9fps

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[ Edited by Spectre660 22.08.2018 - 06:51 ]

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That helps. Thanks. I will give it a try later today.

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Thanks again. Later on ill get on my MDD to see.

My Settings

> OS4 has 3D support finally with Warp3D Nova, right?

Why "finally"?

> GLES4 wrapper

...or GL4ES :-)

@Andreas_Wolf

Names get twisted when I reply late pm or early am .

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I am slacking a bit. I unearthed all of my AGP PC hardware to setup so that if I need to reflash AGP cards back to their PC bios counterparts, then I can. I found a 9800 Pro 128MB AGP card I had flashed 4+ years ago. Can't remember if or why I stopped using it. Something about the smaller bios's being problematic. All is well. Sooner or later I will report back with another video.

Don't know what happened but getting much lower scores today.
So my new scores X5000/20 .

1280x1024 = 71.20fps
1600x1200 = 66.90fps

Squeezed out 60.1 FPS on 1280x1024. I am still on the Radeon 9600.

Hoping I have a GPU heatsink for the 9800. I removed it from the card years ago and only found the card itself. Least I know it is working, but again, it either struggled with the shrunk bios or just locked up playing. But its fun trying out the stuff again.

I had accidentally set the Geometric Detail setting to High.
Reset to Medium

1600x1200=102.7fps

May be a bug with the .config file as I am getting the 102.7 fps again with the Geometric Detail back at High.

[ Edited by Spectre660 23.08.2018 - 19:17 ]

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This post makes no sense and is contradicting itself a couple times. Probably best to make a video of you running the test demo from soup to nuts.

Anyhow, I have a Radeon FireGL x3 on the way. I'll bench my G5 next week when it gets here.

[ Edited by redrumloa 23.08.2018 - 22:07 ]

I have very slow upload bandwidth so I no video upload.

Today's benchmark produces 95.9 in 1600x1200 .

Settings

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FireGL X3 requires a re-flashed bios, and can be tricky to implement.
It might be the o my card to require this (unless you consider PC cards like the X800XT or 9800).

I can only get 55FPS on a x1650 at 1600x1200. Max geometric detail, slider all the way to the right for texture detail, Tri etc...

Also, makes you are demo-ing with a MAX playable screen size. Once in a game, you can adjust it + and - keys on your keyboard. Max it out. You can easily get 20+ more FPS shrinking the playable screen area lol. (Or just make sure screen size is on the max through the Display option.)

This is why videos are important from the time you click it on it on your desktop and showing the configuration after the demo. :) ;)

Anywho, redrumloa laid the lumber with his setup.

[ Edited by Doffo 24.08.2018 - 19:47 ]

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I got a chance to go out to my workshop today and do a benchmark because of curiosity. Here's my setup on the desk.

PowerMac G5 @ 2.3Ghz
Ati Radeon X800

One thing I found out on this setup is in quake lower screen resolutions gave me lower FPS than higher resolutions. Go figure. Anyhow at 1600x1200 and EVERYTHING maxed out I got 114.9 fps.

Some time next week my Radeon FireGL x3 will come in. I'll load that into the G5 2.7 Ghz and redo the benchmark. My current monitor for my PowerMac doesn't like to go over 1600x1200. I'll either have to buy a new one or borrow one from one of my PCs. I'm thinking the 2.7 with FireGL x3 will fly even at 1080p.

Will update next week.


[ Edited by redrumloa 24.08.2018 - 19:40 ]

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The seller I am buying it from already flashed it. He's sold quite a number of these and has a very good seller rating. I should be fine

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If it benches worse than the X800, I'll return it. He advertises it as the fastest gfx card for a G5 AGP model.

[ Edited by redrumloa 24.08.2018 - 19:43 ]

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Simply put, the FireGL-x3 is a relabelled X800 (same chip, same memory, etc). There should not be much of a difference between both cards while running MorphOS.

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Hmm, reading the specs of both it seems you are correct. I wonder why I've seen on other sites claiming it is faster than X800?

Also, looking more at the specs of various Radeon AGP cards with 3D under MorphOS, the x1950pro has higher gpu and ram speed? Is it the fastest AGP option and not the X800/FireGL x3?

-Edit- searching this forum and Google it seems it is faster, but those x1950pro boards are flaky. Hmm...

[ Edited by redrumloa 26.08.2018 - 00:39 ]

One thing is for sure, we can all agree the Tabor had no chance in hell to even compete in this or was able to benchmark anything close while running OS4. ;) But then again, who would ever be dull enough to ever purchase that catastrophe called a Tabor?!?!?!? :)

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I guess that's why it seems to have quietly died on the vine.

Only Tabor Benchmark released thus far was for Tower57 .

Link

Sadly, Tower57 is written in strange way that it needs PCIe machines (*) to get decent FPS. It runs very fast on my PCIe G5 and way slower on my AGP G5. So in fact, this benchmark tells nothing.



(*) Sam460 is so slow that even having pcie it's slower than anything :)