I also think the comparison between the closed src drivers is not productive as i appears that the performance does depend on amongst other things on what one wish's. Currently I am running both Nvidia and AMD cards using closed src drivers and i do not have any major complaints on either driver or card. I do not use wine mainly working on simulation programming using OpenGL, watching DVD's, photo work, model building with Blender,some minor games and a __small__ amount of web viewing.
The open src Radeon driver while much improved is still nowhere near up to the ability of either closed src driver in rendering a complex terrain view with many objects present. Although I am running the latest open src radeon driver on my general work machine. My other machines one using and Nvidia GTX560 super over clocked the other a Radeon 5870, both close src. This machine uses a Radeon 4870. I use debian both testing and unstable.
Blacksmith
The open src Radeon driver while much improved is still nowhere near up to the ability of either closed src driver in rendering a complex terrain view with many objects present. Although I am running the latest open src radeon driver on my general work machine. My other machines one using and Nvidia GTX560 super over clocked the other a Radeon 5870, both close src. This machine uses a Radeon 4870. I use debian both testing and unstable.
Blacksmith
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