I'm a semi-happy user of NVIDIA 8800GT GPU. While in Windows everything works like a breeze, in Linux everythings crawls to the complete freeze.
KDE 4.x window resizing and other operations look like a slide show for me. My CPU usage jumps to 100% on many web pages in Firefox 3, smooth scrolling is sometimes unbearable (Just open any slashdot.org big enough discussion thread).
A simple rotating Firefox 3 throbber consumes around 40% of 2600MHz Athlon 64 CPU.
There's really nothing to be said. Proprietary NVIDIA drivers do NOT support XRender acceleration on 8XXX and later GPUs - so there's really nothing to talk about. For the first time in my life I'm now thinking of dumping my NVIDIA GPU in favour of ATI solution - since I'm eager to upgrade to KDE 4.1 and I ... can not.
KDE 4.x window resizing and other operations look like a slide show for me. My CPU usage jumps to 100% on many web pages in Firefox 3, smooth scrolling is sometimes unbearable (Just open any slashdot.org big enough discussion thread).
A simple rotating Firefox 3 throbber consumes around 40% of 2600MHz Athlon 64 CPU.
There's really nothing to be said. Proprietary NVIDIA drivers do NOT support XRender acceleration on 8XXX and later GPUs - so there's really nothing to talk about. For the first time in my life I'm now thinking of dumping my NVIDIA GPU in favour of ATI solution - since I'm eager to upgrade to KDE 4.1 and I ... can not.
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