On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Steve Wingate wrote:
>
> >
> > > What is the best pure 2D card in X11 with non-binary-only (read nvidia) drivers?
>Does a Matrox G450/550 compare to GeForce & Radeon in 2D?
> >
> > Well, I am not sure what precisely you are looking for, but if you want an
> > inexpensive card ATI Rage Pro and Rage 128 are quite good. And (last time
> > I checked) there were plenty of them on the shelves. You get good 2d
> > perfomance, YUV->RGB, and support for high-resolution modes.
> >
>
> Well, I use FreeBSD and I figure I'm not going to get great 3D performance no matter
>what with nvidia only producing linux binary drivers. So I may as well go for the
>absolute best 2D I can get. Cost really isn't an issue, other than not wanting to pay
>$400 for top-end 3D performance I'll never see anyway.
> I just want support for high resolutions and refresh rates, say 1920x1440@85hz, true
>color.
Well, I was just about to reply "get an older ATI card or similar card by
different manufacturer" but went to check up on ATI site first.
Turns out that only Radeon 7500, Radeon 8500 and All-in-Wonder 8500DV
support 1920x1440@85hz or higher. All other ATI cards can only do this at
75hz.
Also, even if you are willing to go for a smaller resolution, I would
still recommend getting a Radeon - it has a better overlay scaler (the
thing that does YUV->RGB conversion and scaling for MPEG/AVI/movie
playback) than Rage128 so you can play stuff with sizes larger than
DVD. (I am talking about the resolution it was encoded at, not the size of
the displayed image).
Also if you are not buying a retail box check the supported resolutions
again - I heard some OEM versions can have smaller clock RAMDACs (or was
it 3d chip clock ? I don't remember).
Vladimir Dergachev
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