Hi Alan,
Thanks that was some good info. I'm looking to replace my old Quadro4
card (beacuse it's a AGP card and all newer motherboads doesnt have
that anymore....). So after Kim's little comparisment I took a look at
a look at a ATI X1600 256MB card... and it was only a £100....
regards
stefan andersson
On 9/1/06, Alan Jones <skyphyr(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > www.kim-aldis.co.uk | kim(at)aldis.org.uk
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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