On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Mick <[email protected]> wrote:
I use opensource radeon drivers with various AMD cards from ancient to > modern > and never had any problems with them - although there is the odd kernel > regression bug here and there. I came across an Intel graphics card and > the > performance was nowhere near as smooth as with the AMD. > I have to agree with this - mostly. There was a nasty time back there - starting from the r300 days - and apparently ending some time I failed to notice - where both drivers ( ATI's and open-source ) were pretty bad, and Intel cards "just worked" ( albeit slowly ). I even swore off buying any more ATI graphics products ( and the lack of open-source nVidia drivers mean I'm not really interested in them ). I now have an i5 laptop and and AMD server ( A8-5600K ) and for me, the situation is well and truly reversed. The AMD setup is rock solid ( open-source - never tried the AMD drivers ). My son plays supertuxkart, stunt rally, and even a windows port of wizball running under wine for hours on end without an issue. I can't do that on my i5 laptop - I've tried playing stunt rally networked with him, and my i5 lasts about 5 minutes before locking up hard. And there's the obvious performance difference too - the AMD setup blows the Intel one out of the water. I guess people have different use cases and different experiences. But there is absolutely no way I'll buy another Intel graphics product if I can find an AMD one in a similar form ( which can be difficult with laptops, unfortunately ). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
