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2005-11-11
I'm just a linux programmer
I'm confused how you can be a linux programmer and such an apparent fan of ATI.
(I) want a comparison with X2400 or above card to play in even fields. [/quote]
That card has [i]no Linux drivers period. X1900 and friends have drivers, but not open source like your 9600xt.
nVidia's drivers are closed source as well, but at least their performance is almost on par with their Windows drivers (unlike ATI's) and at least they actually have drivers for their newest cards.
The Linux drivers don't do a lot of H.264 decoding, so it's all pretty irrelevant to this article. I just find it weird when people have loyalty to a hardware company, and especially so when it's a Linux guy with loyalty to ATI. And before anyone wonders, I don't have "loyalty" to nVidia. The moment ATI puts out a faster card with lower energy usage and good Linux drivers I'll be buying ATI.