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An Optimized Open-Source Driver Tries To Compete With AMD Catalyst
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 There`s been a number of recent open-source driver improvements that have come about for modern ATI/AMD Radeon graphics cards under Linux, but not all of these features have yet to be merged or enabled by default (e.g. 2D color tiling, PCI Express 2.0, and HyperZ). With some basic tweaks, can the open-source Radeon Gallium3D driver now compete with AMD`s proprietary Catalyst Linux driver when it comes to OpenGL performance? Let`s see."
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AMD Radeon Catalyst: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
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Now having compared the graphics driver performance between Microsoft Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 Linux for the NVIDIA driver with the GeForce GTX 680 and the multi-platform Intel performance for Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge, here`s a look at the AMD Catalyst driver performance with the Radeon HD 7950 graphics card when running between Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux."
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[Tech ARP] Workstation Graphics Card Comparison Guide Rev. 6.6
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These days, there are so many workstation graphics card models that it has become quite impossible to keep up with the different configurations. Therefore, we decided to compile this comprehensive guide to 133 workstation graphics cards. We hope this comparison will provide an easy reference for those who are interested in comparing the specifications of the various workstation graphics cards in the market as well as those already obsolescent or obsolete. We will keep this guide updated regularly so do check back for the latest updates. Here are the latest updates in Revision 6.6 : - Reorganized the ATI / AMD tables. - Added a new Die Size specification for the ATI/AMD range of graphics cards. - Added the AMD FirePro V3900 graphics card. - Updated the specifications of the AMD FirePro 3D V9800 graphics card. - Updated the specifications of the AMD FirePro 3D V8800 graphics card."
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DirectX 11.1 Specifications Released @ NGOHQ.com
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Direct3D 11.1 lets you use shader tracing to ensure that your code is performing as intended and if it isn`t you can discover and remedy the problem. The SDK for Windows 8 Consumer Preview contains HLSL compiler enhancements. Shader tracing and the HLSL compiler are implemented in D3dcompiler_nn.dll."
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AMD Catalyst 12.5 Beta Leaked @ NGOHQ.com
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A new beta build (8.97) of AMD`s Catalyst software has been leaked to the web. This particular software suite updates both the AMD Display Driver, and the Catalyst Control Center. This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The AMD Catalyst software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability."
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AMD Confirms Drop of Monthly Driver Support for Radeon HD 2000-4000 Series
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AMD will be moving the AMD Radeon HD 2000, AMD Radeon HD 3000, and AMD Radeon HD 4000 Series of products to a new driver support model. We will continue to support the mentioned products in our Catalyst releases, but we`re moving their updates to a quarterly basis, whereas our AMD Radeon HD 5000 and later products will continue to see monthly updates. The Quarterly Catalyst releases will focus on resolving application specific issues and critical updates."
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AMD To Drop Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 Catalyst Support
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In what will certainly be controversial and disappointing to some Radeon Linux desktop users, AMD will soon announce that they will effectively be discontinuing support for several Radeon product families from their proprietary Catalyst driver. After that point, for future Linux distribution updates, the open-source Radeon Linux driver will be your only option for accelerated graphics. This is likely happening with the Windows Catalyst driver too, but at least there they have a better-maintained legacy driver process."
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AMD Fusion On Gallium3D Leaves A Lot To Be Desired
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It`s been a few months since last running any AMD Fusion tests under Linux, so here`s a look at the AMD A8-3870K Llano APU performance under both the latest Catalyst driver and the open-source Radeon Gallium3D stack with Ubuntu 12.04. Besides the open-source driver being handily beaten by the Catalyst binary driver, the power efficiency is also a disappointment."
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Qualcomm Calls To Kill All Proprietary Drivers For Good
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Next week at the 6th annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, two Qualcomm Atheros engineers will be speaking about their Linux device driver development experiences and will go as far as calling for all proprietary drivers to be killed for good. They talk not just about killing proprietary drivers for Linux, but for all operating systems. Can the plans they lay out to kill all proprietary drivers work or is this just a big pipe-dream?"
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Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Approaches Stable State
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Nouveau, the reverse-engineered open-source graphics driver for NVIDIA`s entire range of graphics processors, is reaching a stable state where it`s exiting the staging area of the Linux 3.4 kernel and being considered part of the standard, stable kernel configuration. How though is the Nouveau driver working out compared to NVIDIA`s official, closed-source Linux graphics driver? Here are some new benchmarks from ten different graphics cards and other information on the state of Nouveau."
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AMD Catalyst 12.3 Windows 7 Driver Analysis
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I think the first thing we can say is that it`s nice to see that AMD got the Catalyst out on time this month and it did indeed come out during March unlike the Catalyst 12.2 which fell into March. The second thing is that this is a weird driver release. The Catalyst 12.2 was labeled as 12.3 and it made us wonder a bit. Was AMD just throwing an earlier version of the 12.3 drivers out there to keep up with the monthly schedule? In the end we`ll probably never know the truth."
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TitaniumGL: A Faster Multi-Platform Graphics Driver Architecture
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"After first being introduced on Windows years ago, and then
FreeBSD and ReactOS support added last year, this week finally marked
the release of TitaniumGL for Linux. TitaniumGL is self-described as a
"freeware driver architecture" and carries a goal to support OpenGL on
graphics cards with broken, bad, or missing OpenGL hardware drivers.
Here are some benchmarks of TitaniumGL compared to NVIDIA's binary GPU
driver and the Mesa/Gallium3D LLVMpipe software rasterizer."
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TitaniumGL: A Faster Multi-Platform Graphics Driver Architecture?
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After first being introduced on Windows years ago, and then FreeBSD and ReactOS support added last year, this week finally marked the release of TitaniumGL for Linux. TitaniumGL is self-described as a freeware driver architecture and carries a goal to support OpenGL on graphics cards with broken, bad, or missing OpenGL hardware drivers. Here are some benchmarks of TitaniumGL compared to NVIDIA`s binary GPU driver and the Mesa/Gallium3D LLVMpipe software rasterizer."
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AMD Catalyst 12.2 Windows 7 Driver Analysis
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I hate to say it, but since Terry Makedon left the AMD driver team it just hasn`t felt the same and if there was any situation that would cause AMD to miss a month it was going to be that and while it`s been a while since he left, they work so far ahead that it was going to take time for the cracks to begin to show. This February the company also had an extra day thanks to the leap year, and they still didn`t hit it. While AMD released a Pre-Certified version of the driver earlier in the month, which they say is exactly the same; it just doesn`t have the Windows logo. The bottom line is they`ve prided themselves that for some odd 7 years they`ve offered a WHQL driver every month."
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Nouveau Project Reverse-Engineered NVIDIA OpenCL Driver
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There`s another big accomplishment within the open-source graphics camp: Nouveau developers now having an initial working OpenCL implementation for NVIDIA GeForce graphics hardware on the driver that the Linux community developed themselves via reverse-engineering without NVIDIA`s support. "
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