Dr. Righteous
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- Aug 1, 2007
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Last year I made the move to quit using AMD video cards and switched to a low end Nvidia card.
The result was even with a low end card it flat out preformed better and just "worked" than any of the AMD cards I ever tried. Meaning the drivers just WORK. Applications like Kdenlive that flat out didn't work with a AMD card work fine with the that low end card.
So, migrate to a high end Nvidia card? Great idea to I started looking at prices. Why are they twice as expensive as AMD cards?
I'm going to have to migrate my 8 core FX system over to my work system and retired the old Phenom 4. The need to be able to multi task resource hungry workloads has pushed the old timer system to the limits.
The video card in the 8core FX is a Radeon HD7870. This is a rocking card and I don't game beyond 1080p so there is no need for anything faster.
Question is how will it preform under Linux. (Mint x64). The last 6 AMD cards I tried sucked at 2D and really sucked on 3d. Some caused a no-boot. Even running the latest AMD catalyst Linux drivers; they preformed WORSE then the Xorg mystery drivers. (this was about a year ago)
Can anyone tell me things have gotten a lot better??
The result was even with a low end card it flat out preformed better and just "worked" than any of the AMD cards I ever tried. Meaning the drivers just WORK. Applications like Kdenlive that flat out didn't work with a AMD card work fine with the that low end card.
So, migrate to a high end Nvidia card? Great idea to I started looking at prices. Why are they twice as expensive as AMD cards?
I'm going to have to migrate my 8 core FX system over to my work system and retired the old Phenom 4. The need to be able to multi task resource hungry workloads has pushed the old timer system to the limits.
The video card in the 8core FX is a Radeon HD7870. This is a rocking card and I don't game beyond 1080p so there is no need for anything faster.
Question is how will it preform under Linux. (Mint x64). The last 6 AMD cards I tried sucked at 2D and really sucked on 3d. Some caused a no-boot. Even running the latest AMD catalyst Linux drivers; they preformed WORSE then the Xorg mystery drivers. (this was about a year ago)
Can anyone tell me things have gotten a lot better??