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
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