On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 22:47 +0100, Christian Ohm wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 December 2005 at 18:54, Rob Fell wrote:
> > Lee Revell wrote:
> > >... It would be understandable if
> > >there was no 3D hardware available with open drivers but that's not the
> > >case.
> >
> > Given that I'm considering building a new machine, can you point to
> > references please? I wasn't aware any 3D GFX manufacturer had released
> > any significant specs/code...
>
> As far as I know the fastest 3D card with open drivers is the Radeon
> 8500/9100 (developed from specs ATI released at the time) - and I've
> heard even those are noticeably faster with the closed source drivers.
Actually AFAIK the Radeon 9250 is the latest that has 3d accel with open
source drivers.
-- Fernando
Received on Thu Dec 15 04:15:10 2005
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