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Performance Improvements
Saki has very kindly provided us with some performance numbers from his FireGL mod. Check them out!
| Viewset |
Weighted
Geometric Mean (FPS) |
Difference |
|
| Before |
After |
||
| proe-02 |
8.376 |
18.44 |
+ 120.01% |
| ugs-03 |
14.69 |
28.58 |
+ 94.55% |
| light-06 |
8.814 |
17.44 |
+ 97.87% |
| dx-08 |
53.42 |
82.19 |
+ 53.86% |
Great results, eh? 
Frank also kindly provided us with the results of his FireGL
mod. For those who are curious, he is using the AIW Radeon 9800
with a 2.4GHz Pentium 4C overclocked to 3.15GHz, 1GB DDR RAM and an ABIT IC7Max3
motherboard. In addition, the card's All-In-Wonder capabilities, like video
capture, worked after the mod!
| Viewset |
Weighted
Geometric Mean (FPS) |
Difference |
|
| Before (Catalyst 4.9) |
After (FreeFireGL) |
||
| proe-02 |
15.58 |
27.54 |
+ 76.76% |
| ugs-03 |
26.53 |
39.41 |
+ 49.56% |
| light-06 |
16.44 |
33.87 |
+ 106.02% |
| dx-08 |
87.93 |
153.90 |
+ 75.02% |
| drv-09 |
37.76 |
121.40 |
+ 221.50% |
| 3dsmax-02 |
14.60 |
25.55 |
+ 75.00% |
Here are results from redfng. He used RivaTuner to patch the FireGL driver Build v7.88.41.
| Viewset |
Weighted
Geometric Mean (FPS) |
Difference |
|
| Before (Catalyst) |
After (Patched driver) |
||
| proe-02 |
11.66 |
23.01 |
+ 97.34% |
| ugs-03 |
22.10 |
33.45 |
+ 51.36% |
| light-06 |
11.82 |
22.22 |
+ 87.99% |
| dx-08 |
66.82 |
102.7 |
+ 53.70% |
| drv-09 |
34.02 |
102.6 |
+ 201.59% |
| 3dsmax-02 |
11.36 |
18.68 |
+ 64.44% |
philz also provided his results. As you can see, the test time was significantly reduced in the Graphics Tests.
| Viewset |
Test
Time (Seconds) |
Difference |
|
| Before (Catalyst 4.9) |
After (FreeFireGL) |
||
| Total
Time |
948 |
844 |
+ 12.32% |
| CPU
Tests |
618 |
565 |
+ 51.36% |
| Graphics
Tests |
262 |
209 |
+ 87.99% |
| GUI
Tests |
49 |
51 |
+ 53.70% |
| Disk
Tests |
301 |
302 |
+ 201.59% |
| Test
Time (Seconds) |
||
| Before (Catalyst 4.9) |
After (FreeFireGL) |
|
| Total
Time |
948 |
844 |
| CPU
Tests |
618 |
565 |
| Graphics
Tests |
262 |
209 |
| GUI
Tests |
49 |
51 |
| Disk
Tests |
301 |
302 |
But what about in non-workstation "applications" (read : games!
)?
Here are the 3DMark 03 results :-
 Before Modding |
|
|
|
There seems to be a drop of 118 3DMarks. However, the difference is actually only 2% so it's really not significant.
