On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:01 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Just be thankful you are not using ATI hardware where everything prior to the > 2400 Series cards were deprecated to "Legacy" cards and all Linux support > dropped in March ;-) > > (performance difference between fglrx and ati 1066 FPS version 160 FPS, and > the downclocking isn't present in the opensource driver (not the gpu > powerdown) and temps are up 25 degrees (you feel it in the laptop palm rest). > Heh. ati 3d support is much more advanced and mature than nouveau one. And I thought ati had some sort of downclocking support. But I am not 100% sure. From your comment, maybe it can just downclock the mem speed and not the gpu speed ? In any cases, for nouveau it is inexistent.
