X.Org 7.2: ATI Open v. Closed Drivers

Posted by phoronix on Feb 6, 2007 8:24 PM EDT
Phoronix; By Michael Larabel
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Last October we had compared the performance of the open-source R300 display driver against the closed-source fglrx driver for ATI Radeon graphics cards. In that comparison a Mobility Radeon X300 was used with X.Org 7.1, but we have decided to take another look at this driver comparison under X.Org 7.2. In this last comparison, the fglrx binary blob had greatly outperformed the open-source driver. While the fglrx driver remains faster, has the performance delta between these two drivers decreased?

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Slow and Open is better than Fast and Closed swbrown 14 1,667 Feb 8, 2007 7:49 AM

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