It’s come a long way I agree but none of the drivers have matured for me yet.
I bought a used Asus x800xl pcie (an upgrade from the radeon 9250).
I cried bloody tears when fglrx dropped 9250 support because the radeon driver was
a mess back then. Disabling DRI was the only way to guarantee my computer wouldn’t freeze overnight.
for my x800xl, the fglrx driver is the fastest but least stable, so I use radeon. The radeon driver hasn’t been really stable for me until this latest RC 6.8.191. And going off my glxgears tests, radeon is about 2/3 the speed of fglrx.
So I’ve been using radeon drivers for a long time and it’s still heart-ache. No point spending big bucks for a card when I can’t get the performance and features out of it. Probably another year before ATI drivers mature: open and closed. But I’m staying open-source.
Keep up the great work radeon driver guys !!!
I bought a used Asus x800xl pcie (an upgrade from the radeon 9250).
I cried bloody tears when fglrx dropped 9250 support because the radeon driver was
a mess back then. Disabling DRI was the only way to guarantee my computer wouldn’t freeze overnight.
for my x800xl, the fglrx driver is the fastest but least stable, so I use radeon. The radeon driver hasn’t been really stable for me until this latest RC 6.8.191. And going off my glxgears tests, radeon is about 2/3 the speed of fglrx.
So I’ve been using radeon drivers for a long time and it’s still heart-ache. No point spending big bucks for a card when I can’t get the performance and features out of it. Probably another year before ATI drivers mature: open and closed. But I’m staying open-source.
Keep up the great work radeon driver guys !!!
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