On 12/04/12 11:06, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 04/12/2012 09:09:16 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
That was the previous laptop. This current one has an ATI card and I
use ati drivers rather than fglrx for the same reason.
What's the difference (in performance) between fglrx and xf86-video-ati ?
There are some benchmarks at Phoronix. Overall, the radeon driver
offers about 20% of fglrx. There are some rare exceptions where the
open driver can reach fglrx performance.
I still prefer the open driver on radeon hardware though; fglrx is too
buggy (contrary to the NVidia driver.)
Do both of them support GPU usage?
Yes.
