Posted Jun 23, 2012 14:15 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by nickbp
Parent article: Quotes of the week
OpenSource ATI drivers for old chips are roughly comparable in performance with fglrx. So if you get a massive drop in FPS it might be happening because you're using software rendering.
Especially since you were using fglrx before. Fglrx tends to leave its bits behind.
Posted Jun 29, 2012 7:14 UTC (Fri) by elanthis (guest, #6227)
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The FOSS AMD drivers for the r300-r500 chips (the r300 driver) have great performance often comparable to fglrx. The HD 4000 series is the r700 family (the r600g driver) which is still severely lacking in performance compared to the proprietary drivers.