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Originally posted by crazycheese View Post4870/90 are extreme hot and big cards, which get pwned by evergreen easily. Go evergreen. I would, if open drivers would be more useable(to me).## VGA ##
AMD: X1950XTX, HD3870, HD5870
Intel: GMA45, HD3000 (Core i5 2500K)
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Originally posted by darkbasic View PostUhm... maybe evergreen open source support is already mature enough. Can someone tell me how does it compare against R600/R700?
Performance for reasonably simple OpenGL 2.1 and earlier games is pretty good overall. Certain games use features that absolutely slay performance (ahem, Trine, Unigine) but titles like Savage 2, Heroes of Newerth and Second Life run pretty well. But there's no shortage of bugs and regressions all the time, and stemming the tide requires active participation in the development process (e.g. reporting bugs).
Also mesa 7.11 and Linux 2.6.39 are the first releases that I would consider remotely useful for end-users. Prior to that major swaths of the GL 2.1 spec were either completely unimplemented for gallium, unimplemented for evergreen, or unacceptably slow / broken.Last edited by allquixotic; 27 June 2011, 07:07 AM.
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Originally posted by allquixotic View PostAbout the same. There are plenty of bugs, many applications that segfault or induce a kernel panic or graphics corruption, just like all the other DRM drivers.
Saying that all drivers causes kernel panics or other bugs is simply not true and borders on the insulting, r300g for example is the most stable graphics driver I've ever used.
Originally posted by allquixotic View PostAlso mesa 7.11 and Linux 2.6.39 are the first releases that I would consider remotely useful for end-users. Prior to that major swaths of the GL 2.1 spec were either completely unimplemented for gallium, unimplemented for evergreen, or unacceptably slow / broken.
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Originally posted by darkbasic View PostUhm... maybe evergreen open source support is already mature enough. Can someone tell me how does it compare against R600/R700?
As of xf86-video-ati 6.14 (released at 2011-02-03) Xorg 2D acceleration support for evergreen is on par with r600/r700.
As of Mesa 7.11-git (planed to be released at 2011-07-22), 3D acceleration support for evergreen is on par with r600/r700.
That is not to say that there is no bugs, only that there is no more bugs for evergreen than there is for r600/r700....
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Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View PostEvergreen has had some glitches until recently
It doesn't happen that often, but it's annoying because it completely freezes the system. Even network goes down.
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Thank you very much, I will buy an HD5870. It's a pity that we have to wait so much for a decent support, my money will not go to amd becuase it's an old card and there is a big market for used cards. Hopefully in the future we will have a decent day one support (at least in git master).Last edited by darkbasic; 27 June 2011, 10:25 AM.## VGA ##
AMD: X1950XTX, HD3870, HD5870
Intel: GMA45, HD3000 (Core i5 2500K)
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