On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Fred Smith <fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > > AMD video chips, OTOH, are not (IMHO) as well supported.
Today with AMD APUs (CPU+GPU in a single chip) the support can only improve http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_a10_6800k&num=1 ..and according to Larabel things look great wrt GPUs too going forward AMD Radeon GPUs Run Great With Linux 3.11 Kernel, Mesa 9.3-devel http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_dpm_mix&num=1 ..and he founds surprisingly good 3D/OpenGL performance with AMD/ATI proprietary drivers, even matching the Windows8 ones.. AMD Gallium3D & Catalyst Drivers Compete Against Windows Published on August 02, 2013 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_win8_ubuntu13&num=6 "The modern Linux Catalyst driver shares mostly common code with the Windows Catalyst driver aside from the platform-specific bits and other obvious differences. Our past testing of the AMD drivers between Windows and Linux has been mixed with the performance some years being closer than in other years where the AMD Linux driver has fallen behind" (...) " It wasn't a surprise that the open-source Radeon Gallium3D was much slower than Catalyst, but took us off guard a bit was that the Linux Catalyst driver does take some noticeable performance hits over the Microsoft Windows driver in some OpenGL workloads." FC Note:Phoronix uses Ubuntu, not Fedora, for the tests quoted above... -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
