On Friday 13 June 2008 22:11, Austin English wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I for myself would not buy nvidia cards because they suffer from > > terrible performance under 2D and they don't release their specs. > > AMD does, and their drivers are now compareable with NVidia's on Linux. > > AMD has released the ATI specs, yes, but the drivers are not nearly > comparable to Nvidia's on Linux. In a few years, maybe... Well I am not so sceptical, ATI driver is making progress[1], probably because there is a great deal of enthusiasm, and I think that the driver will catch up with nvidia's driver sooner. I guess I'm just an ATI fan who's fed up with NVidia ;) [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.drivers.ati/4835/match=driver -- regards Plamen Vassilev
