What is a realistic polygon count to expect when using immediate mode OpenGL? I am getting about 8000 polys or so at 50fps, using GL_TRIANGLES and no blending, depth testing enabled, one texture bind and GL_LINEAR texture mapping with a color specified for each vertex (the texture is a 128x128 RGBA) core code looks something like this glBindTexture(mytexture); glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES); for(i=0;i<8000;i++) { for(j=0;j<3;j++){ glTexCoord2f(s[j],t[j]); glColor3f(r[j],g[j],b[j]); glVertex3f(x[j],y[j],z[j]); } } glEnd(); Im running an nVidia TNT2 Ultra on a P3 500. The trick is that I am using SDL + Linux. Is this triangle rate in the ball park, or is SDL slow? I know i can speed things up with display lists or vertex arrays. Are there any other performance tweaks I can use? Does anyone know of an openGL benchmark utility that will run with SDL/Linux? Cheers Keef </i> ———————– glDisable(WORK); glEnable(GL_CODING);

So you are getting about 400,000 TPS.

That sounds really good actually.

I get about 400,000 TPS with display listed objects, blending, reflection, and 2 light sources, but on a P3 800 and Nvidia Geforce 1 with 512mb ram.

So your numbers actually sound very good.

Nitzan

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I''ve 6 800 000 polys/s on a gf1 with textures and color per vertex and GL_LINEAR Textures. but without sdl.

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it has nothing to do with sdl, sdl just creates the ogl context! so 100 000+ polys per frame are ok and possible on most modern computers?

and at the moment i have 1 poly, the mouse

Edited by - Zeusel on January 3, 2002 4:42:34 AM

> so 100 000+ polys per frame are ok and possible on most modern computers?

Yes, if you use VARs and AGP fencing, I would say it should be OK.

this depends so much on card/cpu etc
but here are numbers u should aim for ingame
(2 texture units enabled + bound with 256x256 texture, 1 directional light)
tnt2,voodoo3 (300,000 tris)
geforce+ (3million)

FWIW on my vanta (gotterdammerung see below pushes 350,000 tris a second) BUT another program of mine (fractal planet) pushes 2million.
see what a huge difference between the 2 programs

http://uk.geocities.com/sloppyturds/gotterdammerung.html