[Virtualacorn-list] VirtualRPC Speed Comparisons...

[David Pitt]

Roger Darlington <rogerarm at freeuk.com> wrote:

> On 10 Oct 2008, David Pitt wrote:
[snip]
> > 
> > The significance is that it would explain the speed difference, Geminus
> > is a video accelerator that does work on jpegs.
> 
> And that alone would explain the six-fold difference in speed? WOW!

I suppose it has to, I cannot think of anything else that might be different
between our Iyonixes. The only way to prove it is to remove or disable
Geminus, there may be a *command for that. When I first installed Geminus
here I remember being impressed.  
 
> But x86 computers also have (extremely powerful) graphics cards that VRPC
> presumably has access to, so I would still be looking for a speed increase
> of VRPC over a Geminused Iyonix of more than double (with respect to
> !Variations).

The Iyonix has an NVidia GeForce FX5200 and the laptop  has an NVidia
GeForce 8600M GT.

My Toshiba Qosmio G40 laptop has been superseded by faster, and cheaper,
variants, VRPC could be truly nifty on one of those, but to be fair it is
pretty good in speed terms on this one.

-- 
David Pitt