AMD Radeon HD 2000 Series & Linux @ Phoronix

Regeneration · Posted by Regeneration on July 16th, 2007, 01:32 AM

Since January of this year we have been telling you that AMD has been silently working on R600 (Radeon HD 2000) support for their proprietary Linux "fglrx" driver. However, for the end-user the support isn't complete and still equates to being useless. But how does the recently announced Avivo R500 driver function with the newer R600 series? We have tried out an RV610 GPU in several configurations under Linux, and in this article we will tell you what works and what doesn't right now for the Radeon HD 2000 series.

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**Posted by Unixlord on July 16th, 2007, 12:48 PM**

There exists not a single ATI card that can perform properly(properly as in not 1/2 fps) in Linux. Intel still has pathetic performance and Nvidia's Linux drivers rock.
See nothing has really changed!