Originally posted by Thatguy
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Just a reminder, the 70% number (actually 60-70% IIRC) of fglrx performance on average was an estimate our architects came up with based on the estimated size & skill level of the driver development community (small group but very good individually) and the assumption that developers would be willing to work on general "make the driver more efficient" performance optimizations but not the kind of competitive performance tuning you get in a proprietary driver that shares code (and performance work) across multiple OSes. Nothing to do with release of IP or "some other company's secrets".
The developers seem to be approaching that point already with the 300g driver, based on the last round of benchmarks Michael published.
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