Re: X-terminal vs. Linux Box
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Fri, 1 Aug 1997 15:27:42 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Doug Ledford wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Doug Ledford wrote:
> > > Try the Accel-X server, it runs extremely fast on my hardware, using far
> > > less CPU time than any other X server I've used.
> > The benchmarks at http://www.varesearch.com/support/xbench.html
> > show XFree is considerably faster than Accel-X, on the same machine with
> > the same hardware and same video card.
> I'm sure that these are going to be largely dependant on the hardware and
> chipset in use (for example, maybe Accel-X is slower on brand X video
> chipset, but has better support for hardware features on brand Y chipset
> that result in faster speed). In any case, that is why I mentioned on my
> hardware :)
Well the data is at least very clear that if you have a Matrox card, dont
buy AccelX or MetroX.
XFree86 is also much faster than AccelX with my Mach64, on the same
hardware. So thats another data point.
Have you benchmarked AccelX versus XFree86 3.3 on your machine, using
xbench? If so what numbers did you get?
-Dan