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Yay for open source driversYay for open source driversPosted Jul 25, 2012 7:54 UTC (Wed) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988)In reply to: Yay for open source drivers by dlang Parent article: Romanick: The zombies cometh...
> because you can't buy a not-powerful discrete graphics hardware options?
I'm not sure that's true. I have a Radeon card (HD 5450, I think) which I bought specifically because it has passive cooling - and was cheap. I wouldn't call anything with passive cooling "powerful", although it's definitely much more powerful than the crappy IGP I have on my (several years old) motherboard. I still have to objectively determine its performance though, and that's why I'm not sure :)
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Yay for open source drivers Posted Jul 25, 2012 18:52 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
but if you are buying a Radeon card at all you are being defined as someone buying a "powerful discrete graphics card" that runs so much better with the proprietary drivers that there's no point in having such a powerful card and then wasting it's power
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Yay for open source drivers Posted Jul 26, 2012 13:20 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
No need to be a dick about it.
Yay for open source drivers Posted Jul 27, 2012 7:59 UTC (Fri) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]
> but if you are buying a Radeon card at all you are being defined as someone buying a "powerful discrete graphics card"
Well, some people forget that the graphics card manufacturers have an entire lineup of cards, from the very-low-end to extreme-enthusiast-high-end. This particular chip is (I think?) marketed as an HTPC thing that is good for decoding video but not much else. It works well enough for its stated purpose on my Debian system with free drivers, and I'm never going back to fglrx.
Yay for open source drivers Posted Jul 27, 2012 8:02 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
you missed the sarcasm in my reply, I should have made it clearer.
In some people's view (and I believe in the view of the poster a few levels up who asked the question), anyone buying a separate card for their machine is by definition buying a 'performance' option
Yay for open source drivers Posted Jul 27, 2012 12:27 UTC (Fri) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]
> you missed the sarcasm in my reply, I should have made it clearer.
Actually I didn't as it was very explicit ;)
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