Originally posted by pinguinpc
View Post
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Sapphire Radeon R7 260X: A Great Linux Graphics Card
Collapse
X
-
-
Originally posted by PeterKraus View PostI guess I'm a filthy casual then, playing Dota 2, SC2, CS:S and TF2 on my useless HD 6750.
haven't used my nvidia card in a while as the system is relegated to the family room but it also did well with only a few hiccups.
The Earth just stopped someone at phoronix isn't blindly hating and understands all products have pros and cons.
Comment
-
Originally posted by justmy2cents View Posti would go with amd if radeonsi gained gl4 and dpm by default. otherwise nvidia gtx650ti which is same price as this one. there is simply charm in running oss drivers. i would have 0 problems to sacrifice some functionalities in order to avoid blob
Comment
-
Only thing missing is good 2d acceleration. Glamor still has its issues. There are bottlenecks that make a handful of applications terribly slow. There's tearing, and it likes to start segfaulting when upgrading glamor, x11, mesa or any of these closely intertwined components. Back to mesa 9.x for me..
There's a silver lining though. Glamor is being integrated into X, so it'll get more testing, there will be no more version conflicts between X and glamor, and hopefully that leaves more time to work on performance. It'll be a while until the next release though..
3d and UVD I'm happy with.
Comment
-
Originally posted by SyXbiT View PostI made the horrible mistake of trusting a phoronix article a while ago (that praised ATI's improving Linux support), and bought an ATI card. What a huge mistake. Sold it and bought Nvidia as soon as possible.
If you want to play AAA games on Linux with the binary driver, get Nvidia.
It turns out that stability, access to recent kernels, KMS, and not having to deal with three versions of a binary installer is better for my peace of mind.
The blob was crashing the system during the night, I was seeing occasional system crashes outside and inside games, and a handful of games were also crashing (without taking down the system) at inconvenient times. Then I had to switch from packages to NVidia's annoying text-only installer, be forced to close my desktop session, narrow down kernel versions that would boot, disable DKMS, figure out that DKMS did work but the CUDA modules didn't build, try again with newer and older drivers, and get the same results. That just takes way too much energy, when the mesa drivers I've returned to just work.
Comment
-
Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostYou generally want the quietest, coolest, most energy efficient hardware for HTPCs, which also has just enough power to display accelerated video.
Comment
-
Originally posted by devius View PostI think the Raspberry Pi qualifies then. Or, if you need more power, one of those Celeron 847 boards.
Comment
Comment