Posted on Tuesday, May 29 2007 @ 6:05 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Yesterday we covered the graphics hardware needed to handle
Beryl and on the heels of that article we are taking a quick look at
another Linux versus Windows comparison for the official ATI/AMD
graphics drivers. NVIDIA's Linux and Windows drivers perform about the
same and in some instances the Linux binary driver even running faster,
but as we have been sharing now for many months the Linux fglrx driver
is handicapped for performance. Has things since improved for ATI? Well,
as you'll see in this article by using the official Linux driver from
ATI/AMD you can expect your frame-rate to be cut in half compared to the
most recent version of the Windows Catalyst driver.
Check it out
at Phoronix.
