Unity faster than normal?

[ventrical]

With lightdm:

GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Mon Nov 26 04:21:30 2012

GtkEntry - time: 0.10
GtkComboBox - time: 7.80
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 2.45
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.46
GtkProgressBar - time: 1.03
GtkToggleButton - time: 4.80
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.40
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.64
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 1.90
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.38
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 4.49
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 5.19
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 4.25
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 1.30
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Total time: 35.20
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The above was with driver nvidia-current.

Below is with nouveau-firmware.

GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Fri Dec 21 08:19:18 2012

GtkEntry - time: 0.08
GtkComboBox - time: 3.04
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 1.41
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.69
GtkProgressBar - time: 1.15
GtkToggleButton - time: 1.63
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.44
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.91
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 1.46
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.25
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 5.35
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 4.80
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 0.83
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.79
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Total time: 22.85

Both test cases done with lighdm and ccsm on.

According to gtkperf, nouveau renders approximately 12 second increase in performance.

Regards..

[mc4man]

According to gtkperf, nouveau renders approximately 12 second increase in performance.

Regards..

If you're going to compare nouveau to nvidia in 2d perf then you should check & see if nvidia is using 'Adaptive Performance'
If so then set nvidia to 'Prefer Max..' first, then rerun test
(if nvidia is on level 0 at start of test in adaptive mode then generally won't upclock till the scroll test

(while I don't put much stock in gtkperf at least here nvidia in Max is about 50% faster than nouveau. (11.13 vs. 5.81 on a fairly old 8200m laptop

[ventrical]

If you're going to compare nouveau to nvidia in 2d perf then you should check & see if nvidia is using 'Adaptive Performance'
If so then set nvidia to 'Prefer Max..' first, then rerun test
(if nvidia is on level 0 at start of test in adaptive mode then generally won't upclock till the scroll test

(while I don't put much stock in gtkperf at least here nvidia in Max is about 50% faster than nouveau. (11.13 vs. 5.81 on a fairly old 8200m laptop

Very well.. I will try/do that. The reason I drew these compares is to attempt to document my declarations that unity is faster than normal. Also .. I do not know of any other testing tool that will adequately test Unity3D performance so then I have to assume that gtkperf results lends credence to some reasonable facsimile thereof. Simply running system monitor and taking eye_shots of compiz effects does not adequately present any hard data - and then now gtkperf is questionable? So how do we aquire an adequate , comprehensive and trustworthy chart of Unity 3D performance?

[ventrical]

If you're going to compare nouveau to nvidia in 2d perf then you should check & see if nvidia is using 'Adaptive Performance'
If so then set nvidia to 'Prefer Max..' first, then rerun test
(if nvidia is on level 0 at start of test in adaptive mode then generally won't upclock till the scroll test

(while I don't put much stock in gtkperf at least here nvidia in Max is about 50% faster than nouveau. (11.13 vs. 5.81 on a fairly old 8200m laptop

Savings of another 7 seconds to complete that test with Max setting nvidia-current.

GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Fri Dec 21 11:52:27 2012

GtkEntry - time: 0.09
GtkComboBox - time: 3.08
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 1.68
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.33
GtkProgressBar - time: 0.54
GtkToggleButton - time: 0.98
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.30
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.64
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 1.49
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.29
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 1.86
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 2.63
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 0.54
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.21
---
Total time: 14.67

[ventrical]

Here are gtkperf results with SNA initialized on Intel graphics.

GtkRadioButton - time: 0.50
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 1.07
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.27
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 1.51
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 1.55
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 0.73
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.18
---
Total time: 15.30

[fjgaude]

I don't see it as faster than Unity in 12.10:

GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Thu Jan 10 15:42:52 2013

GtkEntry - time: 0.02
GtkComboBox - time: 0.76
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 0.30
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.05
GtkProgressBar - time: 0.15
GtkToggleButton - time: 0.35
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.06
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.09
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 0.37
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.05
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 0.58
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 0.54
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 0.37
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.09
---
Total time: 3.79

This is about the same I get in 12.10, 3.80 or so.

[ventrical]

Here are the non "sna" results. Also I think that this test is unique to raring.

gtkperf with "uxa"

GtkRadioButton - time: 0.61
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 1.88
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.38
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 4.96
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 5.35
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 5.97
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 1.70
---
Total time: 37.81

[fjgaude]

Here are the non "sna" results. Also I think that this test is unique to raring.

gtkperf with "uxa"

GtkRadioButton - time: 0.61
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 1.88
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.38
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 4.96
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 5.35
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 5.97
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 1.70
---
Total time: 37.81

Gosh, you have about the same quickness as my Dell netbook, mini-10n. Unity is okay there but I don't do graphic design with such a slow box. <smile>

[ventrical]

Gosh, you have about the same quickness as my Dell netbook, mini-10n. Unity is okay there but I don't do graphic design with such a slow box. <smile>

I must apologize for being off topic on myself. That test refers to another machine (intel graphics) running a test requested in another thread .. so I had thought I would put the results here. it is a little slower than other boxes I have but it is 64bit intel and I like to experiment with it.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2103579

[gwjvan]

I'm guessing the increase in speed for some people is largely driver improvements.

I'm seeing the same slowdowns with the Unity Plugin and the Dash that I have seen in the past. Dash is missing the first character(s) I type sometimes (Synapse doesn't miss anything, on the same hardware), and window movements/animations are dropping more frames than Compiz+XFCE. My GPU isn't benefiting from the driver improvements we've seen recently.


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