Ubuntu: Karmic Koala 9.10, should I buy you an nVidia or ATI video card? Ubuntu: Karmic Koala 9.10, għandi jixtru you an Nvidia jew kard tal-video ATI?

Posted on 16. Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by Dragos in Operating Systems , Ubuntu Novembru, 2009 mill Dragos fl-Operating Systems, Ubuntu

ATI sucks, for real! ATI sucks, għall reali!

Definitely an nVidia graphic card. Żgur karta grafika Nvidia. Why? Għaliex? Because AMD is very frivolous when it comes to support its legacy video cards. Minħabba AMD ħafna frivoli meta niġu għall-karti ta 'l-appoġġ tagħha video legacy. I don't think that a 3 years old video card should be considered obsolete, and dropped being supported. Ma naħsibx li l-kard tal-video ta '3 snin ta' qabel għandhom jitqiesu skaduti, u naqsu li qed jiġu appoġġjati. I am an unlucky ATI card user (Radeon x1950 GT) that runs only on 10% of this chipset's performance. Jiena unlucky karta ATI utent (Radeon x1950 GT) li tibqa 'għaddejja biss fuq 10% tal-prestazzjoni dan chipset's. Yes you heard it right! Iva smajtu dan id-dritt! Even though there are the open source drivers for video cards that are no longer supported by AMD, these still do not compare with the official fglrx driver. Anki jekk hemm il-sewwieqa sors miftuħ għall-karti tal-vidjo li ma baqgħux jiġu appoġġati mill-AMD, dawn għadhom ma iqabblu mal-sewwieq fglrx uffiċjali. This driver will not work under Karmic Koala, because it needs a Linux kernel of version 2.6.28, whereas Karmic is built on Linux kernel 2.6.31. Dan sewwieq mhux se jaħdem taħt Karmic Koala, għaliex teħtieġ għadma tal-verżjoni ta 'Linux 2.6.28, billi Karmic hija mibnija fuq l-għadma Linux 2.6.31. One note: do not try to downgrade your Linux kernel on Karmic in order to use the fglrx driver unless you're a very experienced Linux user. Wieħed Nota: ma tippruvax li jiddegrada għadma Linux tiegħek dwar Karmic sabiex jużaw il-sewwieq fglrx sakemm int utent Linux ħafna esperjenza. It's just that you have a very high probability to damage your system. Huwa biss li inti għandek probabilità għolja ħafna ħsara lill-sistema tiegħek.

Why nVidia then? Għaliex Nvidia allura? Because the developers from nVidia do really care of their products and their clients and you will find much better driver support from them than from ATI AMD. Minħabba li l-iżviluppaturi minn Nvidia do verament-kura tal-prodotti tagħhom u l-klijenti tagħhom u se ssib ħafna appoġġ sewwieq aħjar minnhom milli ATI AMD. Unless you are planning to buy the latest super-puper model video card model from ATI, do consider getting an nVidia one. Sakemm qed tippjana biex tixtri l-aħħar super-puper mudell ta 'kard tal-video mudell minn ATI, do jikkunsidraw jkollna wieħed Nvidia. You'll save time and some nerves (but not money, AFAIK). Int ser ikollok xi jiffranka ħin u n-nervituri (iżda mhux ta 'flus, AFAIK).

Still wanna get an ATI card? Xorta waħda rridu nġibu karta ATI? Here are some heart-breaking stats from glxgears with my system (Radeon x1950 GT, AMD x2 5200+ Dual Core 2.6GHz, 4GB Ram @ 667MHz): Hawn huma xi qalb-tkissir stats glxgears mis-sistema tiegħi (Radeon x1950 GT, AMD x2 5200 + Dual Core 2.6GHz, 4GB Ram @ 667MHz):

dragos@dragos-desktop:~$ glxgears Dragos @ Dragos desktop: ~ $ glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be Running sinkronizzat mal-jġedded vertikali. Il-framerate għandhom ikunu
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate. bejn wieħed u ieħor l-istess bħar-rata tar-riffriskar monitor.
15676 frames in 5.0 seconds 15,676 oqsfa 5.0 sekondi
16040 frames in 5.0 seconds 16,040 oqsfa 5.0 sekondi
15946 frames in 5.0 seconds 15,946 oqsfa 5.0 sekondi
15940 frames in 5.0 seconds 15,940 oqsfa 5.0 sekondi

3000FPS from glxgears with such great specs? 3000FPS minn glxgears ma specs kbira bħal dawn? That is shi*ty performance if you ask me. Dan huwa Shi * ty prestazzjoni inti ssaqsi jekk me. On Intrepid Ibex (when fglrx was still supported) I was getting 120K+ FPS.. Fuq Intrepid Ibex (fglrx meta kien għadu appoġġjat) I kien qed 120k + FPS .. And yes, for Linux gamers, Nexuiz is slow at times and crashes when playing with an ATI card in combination with the open-source drivers. And yes, għall gamers Linux, Nexuiz huwa bil-mod fi żminijiet u crashes meta jilagħbu bil-karta ta 'ATI flimkien ma' l-sewwieqa open source.