On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:20:32AM +0100, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > I remember someone else writing to this list before saying the nvidia > driver is really slow. I just upgraded my main workstation from 5.3 to > 5.4 and it indeed is. > > So I'm wondering what driver I should use because the choppyness of > moving windows is laughable, a sad kind of laugh. > > Do you recommend I get an ATI/AMD card? What sorts of models would you > recommend?
Try to avoid GCN/Southern Islands Radeons as we don't do acceleration on those because they don't support normal x style acceleration only a mess of EGL/glamor/LLVM that doesn't work yet. So Radeon HD < 77xx, 8000 < Radeon HD < 85xx, Radeon R5 2xx should work. Keeping in mind all the recent Radeon KMS work and the mesa update isn't in 5.4 only -current. 5.4 only supports acceleration with up to R600/R700 class hardware it isn't possible to buy new anymore.
