28-Way Radeon GPU Comparison Under Linux 85
An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has conducted a 28-way Radeon graphics card comparison under Linux that illustrates the differences among the open-source and closed-source graphics drivers."
don't bother (Score:2, Informative)
30+ pages filled images or graphs. The gist of it: 3D capabilities of open source drivers still suck, and the newer cards suck worse.
Re:I like... (Score:3, Informative)
Just use Nvidia.
Better 3D performance.
Better monitor support.
Stuff like VA-API is actually supported.
Stuff like CUDA and OpenCL if you tend to blither on about Beowulf...
Re:I like... (Score:3, Informative)
Open AMD drivers are actually usable: KDE4 composing, XV acceleration, not to mention 2D performance.
In fact, I'd say that the OSS drivers have (or at least had 8 months ago when I still struggled with fglrx) better 2D performance, If you have a 4096x1536 desktop you could actually count the seconds it took to move a window. So I'd say that 2D performance is actually more important than 3D performance. If I want to game I run the gaming OS anyway (for 3D intensive stuff).