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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:14:07
Message-Id: 200808092114.03817.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > Also the 7300 is a bad example - it is a very slow card.
4 >
5 > Not really. It's at least 5 times as powerful as my old Matrox Mystique
6 > from the year 1995 (I think). But the Matrox is faster with 2D.
7 >
8 > It's not the hardware that is slow. Quire the contrary. It's the
9 > drivers that are totally borked. All I can say is stop buying NVidia
10 > and ATI junk.
11
12 and what do you propose to buy? Which vendor is selling graphic cards with
13 good 3d performance apart from the two?
14
15 With ati you can choose between three drivers - and all of them are improving
16 a lot.