Re: State of 3d video, which vendor has best support?
> On Monday 08 September 2008, KlaymenDK wrote:
>> I'm about to build a new pc, the first in quite a few years. My problem
>> is that I can't find out if I should choose a 3D chipset from Intel, Ati,
>> or nVidia. What's the state of support, track record, and such for these
>> nowadays?
>
> This is becoming a FAQ. You should be able to find some good information
> in a couple of relatively recent threads.
>
> The nutshell summary (in my opinion, from memory) is this:
> * nVidia support is good w/ the binary driver on i386.
>Not available on amd64.
> * ati support is great for hardware supported by radeon(4x).
>The manpage has a pretty good list. Better support for fancier cards
>("hd", etc) is coming but not quite all the way there.
> * intel support is very good. Not quite as many souped-up options but
>modern onboard intel graphics are more than adequate for almost
>anything, including many games.
That's excellent!
Believe you me, I've done rather a lot of googling, but it's tricky to
come up with the right mix of keywords to not be flooded with wrong results.
Thank you so very much! FYI, I will buy a (Sapphire?) Radeon HD3850, because
it has dual DVI out and *very* low idle power draw. I shall have to take my
chances with the "not quite all the way there" HD support.
:o) KlaymenDK
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Re: State of 3d video, which vendor has best support?
On Monday 08 September 2008, KlaymenDK wrote:
> I'm about to build a new pc, the first in quite a few years. My problem
> is that I can't find out if I should choose a 3D chipset from Intel, Ati,
> or nVidia. What's the state of support, track record, and such for these
> nowadays?
This is becoming a FAQ. You should be able to find some good information in
a couple of relatively recent threads.
The nutshell summary (in my opinion, from memory) is this:
nVidia support is good w/ the binary driver on i386. Not available on amd64
ati support is great for hardware supported by radeon(4x). The manpage has
a pretty good list. Better support for fancier cards ("hd", etc) is coming
but not quite all the way there
intel support is very good. Not quite as many souped-up options but modern
onboard intel graphics are more than adequate for almost anything,
including many games.
Personally I would look for Intel gfx in a laptop and a well-supported ATI
card for a desktop.
> I'm planning to use FreeBSD (duh) mainly as a quad-core, dual-headed,
> desktop workstation, but would very much like to be able to play the
> occasional BZFlag (call me oldschool). Which vendor I choose will affect
> my options for motherboard and (onboard/separate) video, which will
> affect my choice of CPU, and so on. So this seems to be a fundamental
> question, but I can't find an authoritative guide to 3D in FreeBSD.
JN
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