March 31, 2010
10.6.3 OpenGL regressions.
Phoronix posted interesting article about opengl performance decreases in 10.6.3 comparing to 10.6.2.
Just one graph from there:
It’s nvidia 9400m.
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Do we know if its across the board with all nvidia cards? ATI effected too?
Cinebench 11 approves that!
It’s weird, I use an XFX 4890 flashed in a 2008 MacPro. Motion is flying with 10.6.3 compared to 10.6.2.
ATI too?
Hmm… Very strange! For me many applications brings dramatically performance boost in most OpenGL applications. Xbench says OpenGL result 148 in 10.6.3, instead 84 in 10.6.1
My Macbook pro have 256mo NV8600GT
crazyASD: I have the same situation. Since the update to 10.6.3 and Application Support update Motion is running faster.
10.6.2
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6800/teste1062.jpg
10.6.3
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/8616/teste1063.jpg
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strange, opengl is twice as fast for me (hackintosh / 8500gt)
I’ve also noticed a big improvement on my hack pro. Just ran xbench after seeing this and scores in OpenGL are up 60 points. Gone from 103.90 frames/sec to 188.13 frames/sec.
Great! Netkas Rulez 😀
Is it possible the regression is only for the 9400M then? This would be terrible overall since so many Macs use that as their primary graphics, but since Hack users are almost universally using discrete graphics, we’re getting a nice performance boost.
I saw a nice boost too. This X-Plane graph might be inaccurate or at least an uncommon result. I went from 190 to 212 in Xbench scores with a 9500gt corei7.
Expose is even smoother here with my GTX 260 than it was ever before with 10.6.0-2.
Same here !!
10.6.2 — 207.21 Fps
10.6.3 — 363.26 Fps !!
Same here, superficially. Xbench reports:
10.6.2 ~160 fps
10.6.3 ~250 fps
However. Open glViewer has 10.6.2 reporting more fps across the board then 10.6.3, though it does now have a listing for opengl 4.0 and 3.0 has changed from being 65% to 91% compliant.
Cinebench concurs with these results. I have not tried the phoronix utility.”Galaxies” is roughly the same with either 10.6 iteration.
Opengl information utility has only 16 compute units listed for each of the 9800s, regardless of the version of OSX.
Mitchde has a graphics tool for testing on the nvidia board at insanely. Both G92 chips in the 9800 GX2 work together in his exercise, but score the same in 10.6.3 as in 10.6.2 I was unaware the 9800 GX2 could function in this manner in OSX.
Xbench is an old utility which hasn’t been updated in quite some time. Seem to remember it only tests opengl 1.2 or something like that. Perceptions of speed improvements aside (and I have none), seems like performance has declined with these new drivers?
Gigabyte EP45-UD3P
Q6600 @ 3.24 gHz (360×9)
evga 9800 GX2 (efi string/pciefi 10.6)
4 gigs 1066 Reaper
8 x WD 2500 YD-01NVB1
800w BFG ES
Xig S1283
WUSB54GC wifi dongle
20″ $10 Box Fan & a no name huge case with the side removed.
10.6.3 (64-bit kernel)
nVidia GTX285
Xbench 10.6.2
Quartz Graphics Test 419.22
Line 326.11 21.71 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 416.21 124.26 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 350.17 28.54 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 367.71 9.27 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 1133.10 70.88 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 179.47
Spinning Squares 179.47 227.67 frames/sec
User Interface Test 619.93
Xbench 10.6.3
Quartz Graphics Test 341.11
Line 261.81 17.43 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 330.02 98.53 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 281.84 22.97 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 313.65 7.91 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 932.65 58.34 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 205.49
Spinning Squares 205.49 260.68 frames/sec
User Interface Test 522.14
i would better use the OpenGLExtensionsviewer as Benchmark /Tab Test) for OpenGL. Xbench is very old and uses only OpenGL up to 1.1 features.
For driver diff checks switch Multisampling (FSAA) OFF and Anithro OFF.
For GPU bench use both ON at max. values.
Has anyone tried to use my smalluxGPU with 10.6.3 (with 10.6.3 ATI/NV drivers , not patched or older for ATI 4xxx) ? Its an good OpenCL gpu benchmark .
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/33632/smallluxgpu
oo, very bad….decreases open gl for update 10.6.3….
Does anybody know what happened to the 64bit version of the intel x3100 driver?
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is anyone compared 10.6.3 with 10.5.8 ?
After upgrading my test HD to 10.6.3, I found that my secondary display (40″ sony bravia) was showing a distorted image. Distorted in that the image would appear wavy and noisy. After a few minutes the image would settle into a static state, only to distort again after some time.
I use a 4870. Reverting the ATI-related kexts back to their 10.6.2 resolved the issue. I did not test the performance of opengl though… sucks that I have to miss out on the benefits because of this issue. 🙁
On my 3 hacks theres
with 8600 GT a increase from about 90 to 180,
with 7900 GS a decrease from about 170 to 80
with 7300 GT a decrease from about 160 to 70 …
10.6.2
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3720/opengl1062.jpg
———————
10.6.3
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3852/opengl1063.jpg
Major improvement on my nVidia 9800GT, too. The Xbench OpenGL score went from 108 to 187.
hi with which program can test my framerate? 🙂
Problem with my GTX285 + games
After start game like Starcraft III / Worcraft III on the screen show me
http://a.imagehost.org/0928/IMG_0224.jpg
…i put a movie link, recorded at phone http://i.imagehost.org/download/0674/20100514_3
Any know how to fixt this problem?
I bought a mac pro with a flashed xfx 4890. I am getting very poor results for OpenGL in xbench like 60 something. (I’m not there right now). That’s even lower than the stock x1900. I should be getting better scores than that shouldn’t I? Is there something I can do like flash it again or is it because I’m using 10.5.8 leopard maybe? Please help.