today's performance results

[Roderick Colenbrander]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> http://kegel.com/wine/yagmarkdata/wine-1.1.44-19-vs-wine-1.1.44-72.txt
> shows yesterday's wine's performance compared to today's.
> Highlights:
> Comparing wine-1.1.44-19 with wine-1.1.44-72
> benchmark_variable        wine-1.1.44-19 wine-1.1.44-72 ratio
> 3dmark06_3DMark_Score     3377.00        3388.00        1.00
> 3dmark2000_3DMark_Result  16662.00       16917.00       1.02
> 3dmark2001_3DMark_Score   15691.00       17633.00       1.12
> heaven2_d3d9_FPS          9.31           11.08          1.19
> heaven2_gl_FPS            16.12          16.21          1.01
> Golly, looks
> like http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-cvs/2010-May/066833.html
> was a win.
> Here are a few notes about the raw results.
> A couple benchmarks (really short ones?) seem to have strongly bimodal
> distributions on Wine.
> For instance, here are ten measurements on each OS of
> 3dmark06_CPU2_Red_Valley:
> wine-1.1.44-19 1.33  1.36  1.36  1.36  1.37  1.37  1.37  1.37  1.37  1.37
> wine-1.1.44-72 1.30  1.31  1.31  1.31  1.31  1.32  1.32  1.32  1.32  1.38
> Vista          1.39  1.39  1.39  1.39  1.39  1.39  1.39  1.39  1.39  1.39
> For some reason, today's wine usually had the slow result, whereas yesterday
> it usually had the fast result. Vista didn't suffer from this, and was
> slightly faster, too.
> Why does Wine return a slow result sometimes?
> 3dmark2000_Game_1_Helicopter_High_Detail was quite variable under Wine
> (and slightly better today), but hardly varied at all on Vista:
> wine-1.1.44-19 133.70 133.90 141.60 145.00 145.40 151.60 159.30 161.80
> 164.40 173.60
> wine-1.1.44-72 139.50 144.70 154.10 157.40 157.90 162.40 170.50 178.80
> 180.80 198.60
> Vista          281.60 282.50 282.90 283.20 283.40 283.60 283.70 283.80
> 284.00 284.50
> What can explain such variability?
> heaven2_d3d9_FPS, on the other hand, didn't vary much on Wine - and was
> quite a bit better today:
> wine-1.1.44-19  9.23  9.28  9.30  9.30  9.30  9.31  9.31  9.32  9.32  9.32
>
> wine-1.1.44-72 11.05 11.07 11.07 11.07 11.08 11.08 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.10
> Vista          18.37 18.37 18.38 18.38 18.38 18.38 18.38 18.38 18.38 18.38
> Perhaps I should strip down my system and run fvwm95 rather than Gnome,
> etc.,
> to see if I can reduce the noise a bit more.
> - Dan
>
>

On my laptop I also had some weird results in some game depending on
when I started it. In my case I suspected that the GPU wasn't at the
maximum clock speeds yet. Depending on what GPU you are using you
might also have '2d' and '3d' clocks. Try to force it to maximum
clocks using nvidia-settings.

Roderick