One Year With ATI X1000 Linux Support @ Phoronix

Regeneration · Posted by Regeneration on March 27th, 2007, 07:31 PM

In less than three weeks it will have been a year since ATI Technologies had added it's Radeon X1000 family (R500) support to their Linux binary drivers. When that support was finally added it came about six months after the hardware was actually introduced to the public accompanied by the Windows Catalyst drivers. Even with this six months time that developers had to work on the Linux package, the fglrx v8.24.8 driver (the version that had introduced R500 support) resulted in ATI's flagship GPU series facing a miserable beating by NVIDIA's 7800GTX and even the GeForce 6800GT.

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**Posted by Unixlord on March 27th, 2007, 11:35 PM**

I wonder how those ATI cards would fare if the benchmarks were done with direct3D emulation (taking away the nvidia opengl advantage). Nvidia would probably win but the margin would be smaller.