"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:32146655.TBt7aB5nuL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> AMD 8.41 Display Driver Preview
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> | Whether you are using a Radeon X300 purchased a few years ago or the
> Radeon
> | X1950PRO, the 8.41 driver is noticeably faster. How much faster? In many
> | cases it is about 50% faster while in some configurations it may go as
> high
> | as 90% or more. In fact, in some benchmarks the Mobility Radeon X300 was
> over
> | 10x faster!
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>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=821&num=1
>
Translation - Several years and years later, linux drivers for ATI video
cards are no longer so pathetically bad as to be borderline unusable.
>>> In fact, in some benchmarks the Mobility Radeon X300 was over 10x
>>> faster!
Translation - Until recently linux hardware support for this major video
card was so bad that it barely ran at 1/10th the speed it should have.
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