Re: [ILUG] ati & linux

From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Thu 18 Oct 2001 - 14:41:41 IST


On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:41:17AM -0700, Rick Moen mentioned:
> The ATI RADEON 3D support reportedly performs respectably, but is not
> yet in the same league as that of the proprietary NVidia X server. So,
> for now, your top choice for 3D gaming frame rates remains the latter.
> Daryll Straus predicts that the gap will be closed and the RADEON will
> take the lead, as the XFree86 driver matures.

 The new 5800 looks to be giving nVidia a run for it's money, though all
the benchmarks are showing that the windows driver is cack. Is the linux
driver much behind that ?

Kate

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