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AMD Radeon Gallium3D Starting To Out-Run Catalyst In Some Cases
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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostYea, the results sure are impressive. I still remember how r600g gave excellent performance in UT2004 on medium-high settings a year back, and nowadays it would be even better. Now my R700 card is used for videos only, but even here it's very impressive - full HD content is shown on screen without any stuttering, even when the card is set on the low profile (which it is pretty much permanently for me now, as there is no more reason to go any higher).
Well, you might want to clarify that in the article, then. I wanted to make the same comment...
Any advice about this problem will be more than welcomed!
Thanks.
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Originally posted by aceman View PostOk then, but the legacy version probably doesn't get any performance improvements for some time now.
For 4xxx owners it do not matter a bit.
r600g soon will be on pair in opengl support for that gpu generation. That is what matter for users of that gpu generation.
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Originally posted by grigi View PostSo what big items are left for HD 2000-4000 cards in the open-soucre drivers? OpenGL 3.3 compliance (not far off) and Power Management? Then the drivers are functionaly equivalent of Catalyst for those cards. Am I missing anything?
Edit: also crossfire (multi-GPU) support.
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Originally posted by przemoli View PostAnd?
For 4xxx owners it do not matter a bit.
My claim is that we can not, as the official version does not support 4xxx and the legacy version stopped getting perf improvements some time ago. So the usable legacy version does NOT contain 2 years worth of improvements since the test.
Yes, Catalyst for 5xxx+ has 2 years worth of improvements since the tested version, if such a card will be tested in another article.
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Originally posted by Sonadow View PostNo sane person uses a 4xxx series on a desktop anymore. Except for old fogies who are too cheap to upgrade their hardware.
Given that, why should I upgrade it?
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Originally posted by Sonadow View PostRadeonSI and Northern Islands comparison or this benchmark is useless.
No sane person uses a 4xxx series on a desktop anymore. Except for old fogies who are too cheap to upgrade their hardware.
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Originally posted by Sonadow View PostNo sane person uses a 4xxx series on a desktop anymore.
But the higher specced 4xxx parts are still quite capable.
At least under Windows I had no real issues running current games on a 4850.
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