Hi Stefan,
ATI has improved their linux driver support a lot - they are very
close to nvidia level in quality and they are being very active in
development of them. They actually released an update to support Xorg
7.1 before Nvidia did. (nvidia only did it last week - I think it was
months ago ATI got it sorted.)
They've also indicated they're seriously considering open sourcing the
driver which will mean issues like support for ABI changes that caused
Xorg 7.1 compatibility will no longer be an issue. It will also
facilitate better integration and out-of-the-box support from major
distros.
So while I'm still not sure which way I'd go with a new card in the
future (I'm looking forward to seeing the performance on intel's new
offering which they have already release the driver source for) ATI
are definitely a serious competitor now.
Cheers,
Alan.
On 9/1/06, Stefan Andersson <sanders3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:
interesting... anyone knows how the ATI drivers are for Linux these days?
/stefan
On 9/1/06, bob(at)tekano.co.uk <bob(at)tekano.co.uk> wrote:
> mm that *is* interesting as im waiting for an arrival of a dual xeon
> workstation with Quadro FX3500 card... my only concern over your results
> are that perhaps the preferences for Hardware Texture options may be
> different between your laptop and the workstation and also perhaps your
> windows system services might be tweaked for performance whilst the
> workstation is bog standard install with every service running..
>
> but still, way to go your laptop!!
>
> Tek.
>
> On Fri, September 1, 2006 10:15 am, kim aldis wrote:
> > There's been a few posts here about laptops and their cards so I thought
> > the following comparison might be useful:
> >
> >
> >
> > OGL shot, poly count: 27,000. perspective view, all objects textured,
> > most around 1K textures, 122 in number using a total of 339,481 Kb.
> >
> >
> >
> > Workstation (dual zeon 3.2 Ghz, NVidia quadro FX3500 plays back at 10 fps
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On the Asus laptop a W2J with an ATI mobility Radeon X1600 I'm getting 18
> > fps.
> >
> >
> >
> > So the lappy is outperforming a top end workstation.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > And for the record, the ATI is 100% reliable.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hope the information's useful.
> >
> >
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> >
> > www.kim-aldis.co.uk | kim(at)aldis.org.uk
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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