Re: ATI or nVIDIA for new Laptop?
On 07 Feb 2003, Claus Nagel wrote:
> I'm about to get a new laptop, hurray!. But one last thing makes me
> unsure what to choose. Do I make it for a
> nVIDIA GeForce4 420Go (Toshiba SP6100)
> or
> ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 (Compaq 800w).
> And how does the Radeon 7500 compare to the FireGL 9000?
The 9000 has vastly better 3D stuff, and better hardware DVD stuff. I
don't know that either of those works well (or at all) under Linux.
Xv isn't working right with the 9000, so hardware accelerated video
playback isn't available yet.
The 7500 works fine with XFree86 4.2; it's DRI and Xv work fine[1].
The nVIDIA stuff has no Linux 3d support but the free 'nv' driver works
pretty well, so this all seems to be fine. I believe this has Xv support
as well.
> Gaming is not a real Option - I am just unsure, which chipset fits
> best with X11.
The 7500 is on the middle band for game support (with Windows); the 9000
is in the front band. So, expect to be unable to run games in two years
with the 7500.
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] DRI locks up after a while for me, so I disable it, but others
report success. YMMV.
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