Test Results for Radeon Drivers on R9-270X card

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 4:22 AM, <fischerking1905 at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:

> Hello and thank you all for your work on Radeon drivers for FreeBSD.
> I hope I'm posting this in the right place.
>
> My computer specs are:
> CPU - AMD FX-8350
> RAM - 8GB
> Graphics Card - XFX R9-270X
>
>
> The card is performing very well with the Radeon graphics. I was
> previously using an nvidia gt 740 cardwith of course nvidia drivers. I took
> out this card and replaced it with the R9-270X. For web surfing and
> watching DVDs and general computer use the performance seems to be the same
> with the R9-270X card. It seems to speed up getting to the desktop after
> login with the Radeon drivers. Also some web pages seem to open faster with
> the Radeon drivers. However:
>
>
> There is slight tearing during DVD playback using smplayer on default
> settings. There was none using the nvidia card.
>
> I installed supertuxkart to see how the card would perform and I'm afraid
> the game runs at about half or perhaps two-thirds speed depending on the
> track used. With the GT 740 the game ran fine.
>
>
> Sometimes youtube videos seem to freeze or pause very slightly and then
> resume again
>
>
> There was no xorg.conf file (or at least I could not find it). I tried to
> generate one with the command "X -configure" but I got the message:
>
> (EE)
> Fatal server error:
> (EE) Server is already active for display 0
>     If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
>     and start again.
> (EE)
> (EE)
> Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
>      at http://wiki.x.org
>  for help.
> (EE)
>
>
> Then I booted as single user and I generated the above attached xorg.conf
> file using the X -configure command. This appeared originally in /root as
> xorg.conf.new I then copied this file to /etc/X11/.
> I have not changed anything in this file.
>
>
> Can xorg.conf be configured to improve performance?
>
>
> If it helps, this is the output for glxgears:
>
> 3745 frames in 5.0 seconds = 748.385 FPS
> 3312 frames in 5.0 seconds = 662.312 FPS
> 4028 frames in 5.0 seconds = 804.705 FPS
> 4062 frames in 5.0 seconds = 812.346 FPS
> 4071 frames in 5.0 seconds = 814.086 FPS
> 4042 frames in 5.0 seconds = 808.314 FPS
> 3341 frames in 5.0 seconds = 668.030 FPS
>
>
>
>
> To summarise the card is performing well and apart from DVD playback and
> the supertuxkart game speed (which I don't really care about) it performs
> the same as the nvivia card.
>
> Thanks very much again for all your work. If you want me to do more
> testing please let me know.
>
> Neville
>
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What is the name of the mother board ?


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk