Ubuntu: Karmic Koala 9.10, should I buy you an nVidia or ATI video card? Ubuntu: karmičkih Koala 9,10, trebao sam kupiti te ATI ili nVidia grafičkom karticom?

Posted on 16. Poslano na 16. Nov, 2009 by Dragos in Operating Systems , Ubuntu Nov, 2009 by Dragos u Operacijski sustavi, Ubuntu

ATI sucks, for real! ATI je sranje, for real!

Definitely an nVidia graphic card. Definitivno nVidia grafičke kartice. Why? Zašto? Because AMD is very frivolous when it comes to support its legacy video cards. Budući da AMD je vrlo neozbiljan kada je u pitanju podrška njegove kartice ostavština video. I don't think that a 3 years old video card should be considered obsolete, and dropped being supported. Ne mislim da je 3 godine video kartice treba smatrati zastarjelim, a odustalo se podržani. I am an unlucky ATI card user (Radeon x1950 GT) that runs only on 10% of this chipset's performance. Ja sam nesretan ATI kartica korisnika (Radeon X1950 GT) koji se izvodi samo na 10% ove chipset nastup. Yes you heard it right! Da li je to čuo u pravu! 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. Iako postoje open source drivera za video kartice koje više nisu podržane od strane AMD, ti još uvijek ne usporediti sa službenim fglrx driver. 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. Ovaj vozač neće raditi pod karmičkih Koala, jer treba Linux kernel verzije 2.6.28, dok karmičkih je izgrađen na Linux kernelu 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. Jedna napomena: ne pokušavajte unazaditi vaš Linux kernel na karmičkih kako bi se koristiti fglrx driver, osim ako ste vrlo iskusan korisnik Linuxa. It's just that you have a very high probability to damage your system. To je samo da imate vrlo velika vjerojatnost da oštetiti vaš sustav.

Why nVidia then? NVidia Zašto onda? 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. Budući da programeri iz NVIDIA-in 'stvarno brine o svojih proizvoda i njihovih klijenata i naći ćete puno bolje vozač potporu od njih nego od ATI-AMD. Unless you are planning to buy the latest super-puper model video card model from ATI, do consider getting an nVidia one. Osim ako planirate kupiti najnoviji super-puper model model grafičke kartice iz ATI, ne smatram dobivanje nVidia jedan. You'll save time and some nerves (but not money, AFAIK). Uštedjet ćete vrijeme i neke živce (ali ne i novac, AFAIK).

Still wanna get an ATI card? Still wanna get ATI karticu? Here are some heart-breaking stats from glxgears with my system (Radeon x1950 GT, AMD x2 5200+ Dual Core 2.6GHz, 4GB Ram @ 667MHz): Ovdje jesu neki srce-razbijanje statistikama od glxgears s moj sistem (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 Trčanje sinkronizirani na vertikalne osvježiti. Framerate bi trebao biti
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate. otprilike isto kao i stopa osvježavanja monitora.
15676 frames in 5.0 seconds 15.676 okviri za 5,0 sekundi
16040 frames in 5.0 seconds 16.040 okviri za 5,0 sekundi
15946 frames in 5.0 seconds 15.946 okviri za 5,0 sekundi
15940 frames in 5.0 seconds 15.940 okviri za 5,0 sekundi

3000FPS from glxgears with such great specs? 3000FPS iz glxgears s tolikom naočale? That is shi*ty performance if you ask me. To je shi * ty performanse ako mene pitate. On Intrepid Ibex (when fglrx was still supported) I was getting 120K+ FPS.. Na Intrepid Ibex (fglrx, kada je još uvijek podržane) Sam bio uzimajući 120K + FPS-a .. 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. I da, za Linux igra, Nexuiz je spor na vrijeme i pad sustava našto igranje sa ATI karticom u kombinaciji s open-source drivera.