On Du, 28 nov 10, 11:34:55, Klistvud wrote: > > <Just a thought> > I've just recently read somewhere that GNU/Linux performance of some > of the major video cards lags behind their Windows performance by as > much as 40-50%, especially in 3D and OpenGL performance, and that at > higher resolutions the lag gets even bigger. I think that data was > about the binary drivers and that the open drivers are even more > behind. > Anyhow, my thinking was: given that Intel has more or less fully > opened their drivers, perhaps their video cards, even if somewhat > inferior from the purely hardware point of view, are nonetheless > your best option when running GNU/Linux specifically. In other > words: is it better to have a high-end video card with less than > suboptimal drivers, or would you effectively be better off with a > somewhat middle-of-the road card having optimized drivers? > </Just a thought>
Not sure how much slower (if at all) the Linux drivers are, but Intel cards are just too slow for any serious 3D. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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