[2007/07]

Performance of 2007 Engine prototype while auto-rotating F-14 Tomcat at max speed:

FPS peak	FPS normal	machine	OS	video card	compiler
4,900	2,500	AMD64 X2 2.2 GHz	Ubuntu x86-64	Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT	g++ 4.1
700	400	Pentium III 450 Mhz	Ubuntu x86-32	Nvidia GeForce 5500 FX AGP 2x	g++ 4.1
450	400	Apple Mac Mini PPC G4 1.33 Ghz	Mac OS X 10.4	ATI Radeon 9200	g++ 4.0
150	100	Sony Playstation3, IBM CELL 3.2 Ghz	Yellow Dog Linux PPC-64	Nvidia, Mesa3d sw renderer	g++ 4.0

A suprise is the speed of the Pentium III compared to the PPC G4.

[2006/11]
1300 FPS peak (low LOD, -timer 1)
100..300 FPS normal (mid LOD, -timer 1), 20..40 FPS (high LOD)
System: AMD64X2 2.2 Ghz, Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT, Linux x86-64 Fedora 5

[2005/04]
50 FPS is ideal as the timer that drives rendering is 20 milli-seconds (1000/20=50).

Normal timer-driven rendering:

FPS low...high	FPS normal	machine	OS	video card	compiler
48...50	50	Power Mac G5 1.8 GHz	Mac OS X Tiger	Nvidia GeForce FX 5200	g++ 3.3.3
35...50	47..50	Pentium III 533 Mhz	Redhat 8, Glide	3dfx Voodoo 3	g++ 3.4.3
24...50	30	dual Pentium II 400 Mhz	Fedora Core 3, Nvidia driver	Nvidia TNT2	g++ 3.4.3

500 frames rendered immediately one-after-the-other (-fps arg):