Re: OT - Re: Fedora Core 5 Idea
Paul wrote:
>I don't want to start a flame war here, but the r200
open-source
>driver is *very* fast and very high quality.
Maybe I should revisit them on my old 9000 card ... when I used to use
them they did not do mult-texturing and did not support s3tc compressed
textures. I don't believe the texture compression issue is fixed
because of patent issues.
GL_ARB_multitexture is supported in new Mesa, but I'm not
sure if it's accelerated on r200.
s3tc _is_ supported for radeon, r200 and Intel chipsets,
altough encumbered code is kept in a separate library to
avoid legal problems for Mesa:
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/dri_experimental/s3tc_index.html
>Even though glxgears isn't a comrehensive benchmark suite,
I'd
>like to point out that I get 2800-3000 fps with a Radeon 8500
>card using the latest CVS code. NVidia cards usually score
>less than 2000 fps.
Hmmm I'm getting the following on a nVida 5700 Ultra (a far from top
range nVidia Card)
[subsolar@azure ~]$ glxgears
20495 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4099.000 FPS
27532 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5506.400 FPS
27474 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5494.800 FPS
27347 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5469.400 FPS
27244 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5448.800 FPS
Oops, perhaps I've been avoing NVidia cards for too
long :-)
BTW, NVidia is the only binary driver for Linux that
doesn't suck and works fine even with latest versions
of the kernel.
(that's just a technical consideration, it doesn't
mean we should all be depending on it).
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