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Intel graphics vs. ATIIntel graphics vs. ATIPosted Jun 22, 2007 7:49 UTC (Fri) by anton (subscriber, #25547)In reply to: Intel graphics vs. ATI by dark Parent article: R500 initial driver release
The best usable ATI card is the Radeon 9250.Looking at glxgears numbers as well as UT 2004 numbers, the X850XT and X800 are quite a bit faster. The Radeon 8500/9100 is also faster than the 9250, but has not been on sale (except used) for several years. The cards up to the 9250 have free 3D drivers thanks to information released by ATI, whereas the later cards have them thanks to reverse engineering. how does it compare against that?Glxgears numbers (24bpp): 6520fps Radeon X800 3503fps Radeon 9250 1550fps Intel G965/X3000 GMAThe numbers I have seen for the X3000GMA on Windows are also worse than for discrete graphics cards (so this is not a driver maturity issue). One contributing factor to that is the lower memory bandwidth of integrated graphics. If you buy a 9250 and want performance, get one with a 128-bit memory interface.
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