On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:55 AM, <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 08:49:32PM -0500, Alecks Gates wrote > >> I'd pick AMD, and very likely one of their APUs if you don't need >> intense graphics, as they seem to be able to handle most things well >> and even some light gaming. > > How do AMD's and Intel's open source video drivers compare? > > -- > Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> >
I've never used an Intel chip actually (well not in ages, and not on Linux), but they tend to have the best open source drivers. Their graphics chips aren't nearly as good, though. AMD radeon open source drivers are getting better with every kernel. Apparently there was a huge performance increase with 3.5 alone. They are catching up and as long as you don't have something brand new the support is pretty good (and apparently even this is getting better, too). Funny enough, there are some things I've actually had run faster using radeon than fglrx, mostly with wine games. But the radeon driver still does not have full support and even some things will simply not work with them.
