Nicholas Charles Leippe wrote: >>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. > >So in short, if you care more about image quality, and/or your eyes >are bothered by unsteady display (I'm not, really), I'd recommend >sticking with the G400. If you really want a boost in speed, go for >the Radeon, and be happy to know that it will actually get faster >for free in the near future. > >Nick > > >_______________________________________________ >Dri-devel mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > I have a radeon 7200, and it has awesome quality in 2d and 3d, but the 3d is unstable with my via mvp3 (yes, that's a socket7) chipset.
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