[Interest] OpenGL cpu benchmark QtQuick vs OSX Native

[Gunnar Sletta]

Hi Bruno,

Is the Native OSX application also rendering via a framebuffer? On an Intel GPU rendering via an FBO will add considerable cost. Is the same symptom present when you render directly to the QQuickWindow using for instance the beforeRendering() signal? (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquick-scenegraph-openglunderqml-example.html)

cheers,
Gunnar

> On 04 Sep 2015, at 09:06, Bruno Di Giorgi <bruno at brunodigiorgi.it> wrote:
> 
> Dear mailing list,
> 
> First time I write here, I posted this yesterday on the QtQuick forum and a user recommended me to post on this mailing list.
> 
> I noticed some heavy cpu usage in a QtQuick (using Qt5.5) osx app compared to an equivalent Native OSX app. Around 5% more cpu usage with a simple app, up to 15% more with more complex OpenGL tasks.
> 
> Both are using Core profile
> Version: 4.1 INTEL-10.6.33
> GLSL: 4.10
> 
> In QtQuick I do openGL inside a QQuickFramebufferObject as I've seen advised many times.
> In OSX I draw inside a subclass of NSOpenGLView.
> 
> Here are the OpenGL Profiler statistics: http://pastebin.com/uWyy8RMk 
> Where you can see that CGLFlushDrawable takes so much longer in QtQuick (avg 15418.39 microsec) than in Native OSX App (avg 1287.65 microsec).
> 
> I know that what CGLFlushDrawable really does is to set the internal OpenGL state and then do the drawing, so I wonder if I am misusing QtQuick OpenGL somehow. Here is how I set up OpenGL in QtQuick app:
> 
> 	QSurfaceFormat f;
> 	f.setVersion(4, 1);
> 	f.setProfile(QSurfaceFormat::CoreProfile);
> 	QSurfaceFormat::setDefaultFormat(f);
> 
> Then, when setting the framebuffer (inside QQuickFramebufferObject::Renderer method createFramebufferObject):
> 
> 	QOpenGLFramebufferObjectFormat format;
> 	format.setAttachment(QOpenGLFramebufferObject::Depth);
> 	format.setInternalTextureFormat(GL_RGB);
> 	format.setSamples(0);
> 
> I really hope there is a solution that makes me achieve similar performance because I really enjoy QML and I'd like to continue using it.
> 
> Hardware used:
> MacBookPro 13'' with retina screen,
> cpu: 3 GHz Intel Core i7
> gpu: Intel Iris 1536 MB
> 
> Best,
> Bruno Di Giorgi
> 
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