On Monday 09 February 2004 02:28, Stroller wrote:>
you may want to read this:...Which will give best bang-per-buck..? - 64Mb ATI 7000 DDR with TV/Out for �23 - 64Mb ATI Radeon 7500LE SDR AGP TV Out for �30 - 128Mb ATI Radeon (Sapphire) 9200SE Tv/Out for �35
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/atilinux_oct03/ati_linux_comp_oct03.html
the 7000 and 7500 are real old. And they were slow, when they were new. So I would not touch them.
Hi Armin,
I had the same feeling as u :-), but feeling is not certainty ... I didn't read given link yet, but I use 7500 (it is not 7500LE) and had one 9200LE (light edition ?) two weeks ago for testing.
1.Compared cards: Saphire/ATi Radeon 7500 64MB DDR V/D/VO id vendor 0x1002 id device 5157 (CRT out) RV200 QW (R7500)
Saphire/ATi Radeon 9200 128MB DDR V/D/VO id vendor 0x1002 id device 5961 (CRT out) RV280 Ya (R9200LE) id vendor 0x1002 id device 5941 (DVI out)
2. Drivers and "glxgears" results:
Radeon 7500 64MB DDR + xfree-drm-4.3.0-r7 1152x864 24 bit ------------------------------------------------------------ default 8167 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1633.400 FPS full screen 1023 frames in 5.0 seconds = 204.600 FPS no screen 27739 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5547.800 FPS R7500 is not supported by ati-drivers.
Radeon 9200LE 128MB DDR + ati-drivers-3.2.8 1152x864 24 bit ------------------------------------------------------------ default 6366 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1273.200 FPS full screen 1010 frames in 5.0 seconds = 202.000 FPS no screen 12931 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2586.200 FPS R9200 is NOT supported by xfree-drm !!!
Both cards were tested on the same machine (i865PE, Xeon @1.6GHz, 2x256MB DDRAM CL2)
3. Summary
IMHO 9200 card is worse, because it is not faster, and supported by proprietary drivers only. For me that means also in case FPS results are identical, I prefer 7500 (since it's cheaper). R7500LE is probably little bit slower as 9200 (I didn't test it).
If somebody interested, I can send used XF86Config's and logs.
noro
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