Nicholas Charles Leippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Apologies if this is off-topic. > > > > Does anyone here know roughly what kind of DRI performance I could > > expect with a Radeon 7500 using the gatos drivers? I'm thinking of > > replacing my trusty Matrox G400, and have found only scant > > information via Google regarding XFree86 and the 7500. > > If I'm not mistaken, the 7500 is the same basic core as the original > Radeon. (card is +/- other features, and maybe different speed). > > I ran a G400 for ages. It has a crystal clear, crisp image, and > has given excellent performance. (~100FPS in Q3A @640 in 16bpp) > > I then purchased a Radeon (64MB ddr w/vivo). It is definitely faster. > It will, however, get much faster when the T&L code gets finished and > added to the driver, which I'm anxiously awaiting. Currently, I get > about 80-200+ FPS in 640x480@16bpp in Q3A--totally adequate. I get > good perfomance in 32bit mode, but it just isn't enough. If the > level is heavily loaded or there's a lot of particles it dips too > low for comfort, so I stick with 16bpp. I imagine the T&L code will > alleviate this issue considerably. That's at least what I'm hoping > for. > > The only thing I don't like about my Radeon, is that the image is not > nearly as crisp, nor even as stable. > > My setup is: > > Video card <-- vga --> kvm <-- vga --> Monitor. > > But, even with just: > > Radeon <-- vga --> Monitor > > it has serious ghosting (8mm @ 1600x1200) artifacts, and if I look > closely at the image, it is not steady--little dots are floating > around. I live with it because it is so much faster, and I use the > video in features--which work great btw. Perhaps I have a bad board, > or my cable is too long, but this is what I observe. The G400, even > with the kvm in between, does not exhibit this at all.
FWIW, I had a G400 MAX with a rock solid, crystal clear image. I now have a Radeon in the system. The performance is a lot faster, there are no more artifacts in UT and the 2D image is just as good as with the G400 MAX . -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
