A lurker too, here. I've been watching with great interest too, but haven't interfered in anything yet, for lack of time and the deep technical understanding required for most of the threads ;)
I am a bit interested in this too. I'm still not clear on exactly where the OGP card would be on a comparison chart. I think comparing them with the cards on those charts you have there is a wee bit optimistic. My impression so far is that we should expect 3D-performance to be around a TNT2/Geforce, propably even lower. As I said, I'm not entirely certain, but it's down there somewhere, I think. I recently burned my Geforce2, and since I've sworn not to buy a card that's not fully supported by open drivers, I went for a Dual Head Matrox G450 as my new card. Should recieve it in a few days. My hope is that when the OGP card comes out, it will be able to run in a triple-head configuration with the Matrox. And later I would be able to replace the Matrox with yet another OGP card or two ;) By using the Matrox, I'll also get used to the rather lower 3D-performance we'll get with the OGP and such. Anyway, I don't think you should hope for enough power to run something like WoW... :) - Palle Raabjerg Sam Keshavarzi wrote: > Hi guys! > > I've been following the mailing list with great interest for quite a > while now, but there's one question I haven't seen a good answer to yet. > What is the expected 3D performance from this card compared to other > cards currently on the market? (specifically gaming performance) > > I have a laptop with an ATI IGP 320M. This card truely sucks, but it can > still run World of Warcraft reasonably well in Linux at the lowest > graphics settings (using Cedega or Wine), and this is a game released > 2005. Would this be possible with the OGP card? > > I expect that since there would be no problems writing good drivers for > this card, one would be able to squeeze every last bit of performance > out of it. Even if nobody writes those drivers, it's good to know there > will be nothing hindering people from doing it. > > I have found some comparison charts for ATI (1) and Nvidia (2) cards, > and I'm also wondering where in those charts the OGP card is > theoretically at. > > 1. http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=3&var1=98&var2=0 > 2. http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/132 > > I'm saving up to buy this card, and looking very much forward to the > release of the FPGA version. I have no computer to put it in right now > (only a laptop) and I can't program it, but if I can support this > project and maybe have some useful hardware to play with later on, it's > worth the money. Thanks for all the work you guys are doing, it's > appreciated. > > Regards Sam > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > > . > _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
