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Re: recommend a netbook for Debian deployment?



On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 07:08:38PM +0000, Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
> On 6 November 2013 18:45, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:
> 
> Cool. But I guess the A10 GPU (Mali400) is pretty basic compared to
> the aforementioned PowerVR?

Not really. Mali400 is a pretty respectable package still, and it just 
got a boost by doubling the core count in Mali450 (the first examples 
should be shipping around now - that's how recent it is). It cannot keep 
up with the very latest generation of GLES3 mobile cores, especially 
since it is a pure GLES2 core with separate shaders, but when it 
featured in the galaxy s2 and s3 it was a real gorilla in the room.

On the A20 though, it is a 2PP version only, which supposedly clocks to 
only 350MHz. Still, it should be able to keep the A20 memory bus well 
busy.

More importantly though, it should soon get a proper mesa driver which 
should perform close to the binary driver.

Luc Verhagen.


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