AMD will soon deliver open graphics drivers, said Henri Richard just a few minutes ago, and the audience at the opening keynote of the Red Hat Summit broke into applause and cheers. Richard, AMD's executive vice president of sales and marketing, promised: "I'm here to commit to you that it's going to get done." He also promised that AMD is "going to be very proactive in changing way we interface with the Linux community".
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Member since:2006-01-07
"[..] when Intel provides good, free drivers for very slow 3D decelerators."
Uhm...The G965 ("GMA X3000") is far from slow. It has a 667 MHz GPU with a directly link to the motherboard's potential DDR2-667 or DDR2-800 memory. It supports hardware T&L, OpenGL 1.5+, hardware video decoding and motion compensation, SM 3.0, etc.
Previous generations did a lot of their tasks in software (especially T&L and clipping, which made games a no-go); but their newer generation stuff is quite good.
Granted, the G965 is in a lot of ways a glorified stream processor, but the fact remains that these are *NOT* slow GPUs.
Member since:2006-01-03
I confess my ignorance as to the real performance of the latest Intel 3D hardware, though I'm afraid they are far from the minimum for gaming at the currently most common resolution of 1280x1024.
I did have Intel graphics in my previous PC at work, and 3D performance was horrendous, though far more than enough for 3D screensavers, wobbly windows, and cube multidesktops. Not having to fiddle with the Linux drivers on Linux was nice too. If I were to choose what video chips to use in a non-gaming setting, today I'd spec Intel, for sure.
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2006-01-03
> They need to do *better* than Intel to get my attention.
Well, they would do A LOT better than Intel by simply providing good, free drivers for very fast 3D accelerators, when Intel provides good, free drivers for very slow 3D decelerators.