Graphic card

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Wed Feb 21 14:29:59 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 23:19 -0800, spmirowski wrote:
> >
> > From: Tanguy Eric <eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr>
> >
> >
> > I will change my actual graphic card (GeForce4 MXIntegrated GPU with 128
> > Mo) with a new one in AGP.
> > I have the choice between : Twintech GeForce 6200 256 Mo (bus 64 bits in
> > AGP) and Club 3D Radeon® 9600 256 Mo (9600 Pro bus 128 bits).
> > I would like to have informations about the performances of these 2
> > cards and how they install fine in FC6 with closed source driver.
> >
> > Please help me to make a choice.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Eric
> Here's a site I have been using a bit lately to compare cards: 
> http://users.erols.com/chare/video.htm
> 
> The ATi Radeon has slightly better bandwidth, however the nVIDIA card 
> supports Pixel Shader 3.0.  I suppose it might be a tough decision 
> depending on what want to do with it.  Both have video drivers available 
> for the respective companies.


>From all the posts that I have read, nVidia seems to win hands down for
linux support, while Ati has been reported as problamatic. YMMV, Ric
-- 
================================================
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar
http://www.wayward4now.net
================================================





More information about the users mailing list