AMD FIREGL V5600 Review + Phoronix previews the new ATi/AMD linux driver!

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AMD FIREGL V5600 Review
The new AMD FireGL V5600 professional graphics card. Nearly Four weeks ago on launch day we showed what AMD’s new entry level professional graphics card the FireGL V3600 could really achieve. The new FireGL V5600 has most certainly shifted the series of card up a tremendous gear, for an entry level mid range card it has the magical bang for buck.

One important point of note. No additional power connector is needed to supply the graphics card as it can safely run from a system that only has a 350 Watt PSU; which is going to be a huge benefit to those wishing to upgrade their graphic cards and not have to worry about additional costs of a new power supply. The FireGL cooler fitted was quiet and acoustics were not an issue at all whilst underload throughout the tests. Normally this is a point were one would here some serious noise kicking into play from either the system fans or the GPU cooler. Not so as we stated earlier - nice and quiet. With continuing support for both Direct X 10 and OpenGL 2.1 will mean no reduction upon the CPU performance which is evident from the Cinebench Scores returned.

In all the years of reviewing professional cards we have not seen such a performance uptake from entry level to mid range. The drivers we have seen and tested; kudos to the some 150 members of the driver team. And what is the next driver release going to be capable of – one will be completely surprised at what it is going to bring. Astounding performance uptakes.



One of the most interesting points of the new SPECviewperf® 10.0 benchmark is the huge amounts of information it produces. The logs hold bountiful amounts of precise but critical information that show just how the graphics card and complete system I/O performs. It may take considerable amounts of time to complete, though the wait for the true professional is well worth it as we have now seen on the last 2 outings of SPECviewperf® 10.0 in its fullest.

The performance of the FireGL V5600 has been remarkably astonishing to say the least for a 128 bit controller! Returning results which are found in the competitions High-End professional cards, in some areas their Ultra High-End Cards!

http://www.3dprofessor.org/Reviews Folder Pages/FieGLV5600/V5600&C2SBA+P1.htm


AMD 8.41 Display Driver Preview,R600 i R500 na linuxu-ima vise testova pa pogledajte sami(inace perfmanse su odlicne)
http://www.phoronix.com/

Well, what can we say? The ATI R500 performance has certainly improved. In all of the benchmarks with all of the graphics cards, the 8.41 driver was considerably faster. On average, this new driver allowed these ATI graphics cards to operate between 50% and 90% faster. These driver improvements surely fill the gap between NVIDIA and ATI on Linux and you can find much more about this in our future Phoronix articles. This new Linux driver allows the Radeon X1300PRO to function quite well as a low-end graphics card, and the Radeon X1800XT is now able to shine over the X1800XL, which before these two graphics cards had performed nearly the same as with the Radeon X1950PRO. While the bugs we ran into with the R500 series and the 8.41 driver were minimal, the fglrx 8.42 release will contain additional enhancements for this generation of GPUs.

Thanks to the new driver, the Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB offers the best price/performance ratio of any high-end graphics card under Linux. The Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB costs roughly $400 USD where as the GeForce 8800GTX 768MB is in excess of $520 USD. Aside from the gaming performance, this graphics card features stunning graphics capabilities and handles video playback very well. Based upon what we have seen with the R600 under Linux in the past month of internal use, the experience using the fglrx 8.41 driver should be free of any major bugs. HDMI on the HD 2900XT will also work via the included DVI to HDMI dongle. Any bugs that do come up should hopefully be fixed promptly in the monthly fglrx driver updates.

While many of you have had problems with ATI/AMD in the past, with this new driver we express a vote of full confidence in the latest work by AMD's Graphics Products Group and encourage all of you to at least try out this new driver. The Linux driver announcement today and another announcement in the near future shows AMD's serious dedication to the long-term support of the Linux platform.

We do have a number of additional Radeon HD 2000 series articles in the works including our results from the Radeon HD 2400 and HD 2600 series. Tell us what you think about the R600 series on Linux in the Phoronix Forums.

 

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