buyer's guide link [LWN.net]

buyer's guide link

Posted Feb 26, 2008 5:44 UTC (Tue) by The_Barbarian (subscriber, #48152)
In reply to: buyer's guide link by grouch
Parent article: Radeon R5xx 3D programming guide released

I got a 9250 a several months ago based on similar research (and the fact that fanless
versions are available), and it has worked perfectly. Admittedly, I haven't tried compiz et al
(I use awesome), but Quake 3 works great.

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buyer's guide link

Posted Feb 26, 2008 16:16 UTC (Tue) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link]

I've tried compiz, which works just fine on my 9250, although I don't use it regularly (never
saw much need for a lot of eye candy).   I mainly got the 9250 for FlightGear FlightSim, for
which it works just fine (a difference of about 2-3 frames/second for my old recycled no-3D
graphics card and about 30+ frames/second for the 9250 with all the effects on).

And yess, the reason I got the 9250 was that it was (at the time, about a year ago) the best
card with free/libre drivers.