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[ILUG] [comp.os.linux.hardware] Graphics card fully supported by Open Source drivers!

[ILUG] [comp.os.linux.hardware] Graphics card fully supported by Open Source drivers!

Paul Jakma paul at clubi.ie
Tue Nov 30 14:26:56 GMT 2004


On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Conor Wynne wrote:

> Ah Niall, you have one of those fancy OSS supported chips. Can you run
> "glxgears" and tell me what frame rate you get.
>
> Its not super acurate but it will give me an idea is its worth buying.

On the alpha it gets 174fps, but that's a 32bit PCI Radeon 9200SE in 
an ancient 433MHz Alpha. The 9200SE is a bit crippled apparently - 
64bit RAM or something.

Vague memory that the 4x AGP 9200 gets somewhere in the 500's on an 
Athlon 800MHz (in a 2x AGP slot).

regards,
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Paul Jakma	paul at clubi.ie	paul at jakma.org	Key ID: 64A2FF6A
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