NVidia: expensive, doesn't perform as well on DVD playback as ATI, *much* less trouble with XFree
ATI: cool cards, excellent DVD playback, good 2D image quality, but even folks at ATI themselves ain't capable of coding proper drivers, lots of probs with XF. Kind of poker game: might work, might not. Farid Hamjavar schrieb: > Hello, > > I posted this to two related linux usenet > groups the other day. If any of you has any > opinion about ATI Vs nVidia (in context of Linux/xfree86) > please let me know. > > Thanks, > Farid > UNM > > ------------------------------------------------ > Date: 6 Dec 2001 14:34:27 -0700 > From: Farid Hamjavar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x, comp.os.linux.hardware > Subject: Choosing between the two vendors > > Greetings, > > Any technical opinion for the case below is greatly appreciated: > > We're about to launch our next generation of visualization lab and we > have been using Maya for years. The deployment date is about early > 2002. The OS will definitely be RH 7.2 and we plan to use Maya4. As > the goal of the lab is not much performance but rather OpenGL > development and in-depth educational topics, after about two months of > research I came down to two options in terms of graphics card for our > new machines: basically ATI Fire GL based product (GL2) and nVidia > Quadro based product (Quadro Pro2) > > What is important to us is first and foremost robustness of product > both hardware wise and card's interaction with software (both the OS > and Maya). Also it would be nice to know that vendor regularly update > drivers. > > QUESTION: > NOT considering price a deciding factor what do you think in > this case is a prudent choice? > ATI (Fire GL) product or nVidia (Quadro) product? > > Thanks, > Farid > UNM > > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCM d-(--)@ s-:+ a-- C++ UL>+++ P>++ L+>++ E- W++ N- o? K? w--(---) !O M-- V? PS+ PE+++(++) Y+ PGP- t+(++) 5 X+(++) R++(+++) tv--@ b++ DI+++ D+ G(--) e* h(+) r%>* !y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Nothing fights like the opposition _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
