Intel® Pentium®+NVIDIA or Turion+AMD... What is better for Linux?
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OK, I've already put my eyes on dv5-1260er Pavilion (Centrino 2, C2D P7450, 2GHz, 3072MB, 250GB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT). It appears more modern and powerful and is still in my price category. But if you have any suggestions on AMD vs Intel+NVidia performance and Linux compatibility, please let me know! I have one or two weeks to make a decision. Any criticism and suggestions are welcome.
Last edited by and_ru; 07-04-2009 at 08:32 AM.
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Are you doing anything that relies heavily on graphics? If not, then I don't see why it would make a difference. I don't even bother to use the "proper" graphics drivers on my machine (which has an NVIDIA graphics chip), because there's no need for me.
Yes, I'm going to edit still and motion pictures and run CAD/CAM (Pro/E, Solidworks, Ascon Kompas are candidates to buy) and 3d-modeling applications.
Does it still mean that NVIDIA's better?
Absolutely, especially with highly graphics intensive programs like CAD/CAM, so definitely nvidia is better. The ATI drivers do not provide for very good performance and have lots of bugs, even more than the nvidia drivers.
I'm not saying nvidia is the best, their drivers have issues too, and I wish they were open-sourced, but at least they provide good performance and a reasonable amount of stability.
ATI support in Linux is a crap. I have a ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 and the driver wors well, but ATI people future drivers will not support that "legacy"card, but it's only 2 years old.
ATI has not released the drivers for the latest kernels 2.6.28 and 2.6.29.
The ATI drivers are slower than windows counterpart by a great margin.
Plead calls to ATI has been answered with indifference.
ppesci : I also have the X1600 Mobility (and hate it) on my laptop. What is the latest Linux kernel we can run with this one? And latest ATI Drivers? 9.3?
This is driving me insane!! No more ATI for me!
ppesci : I also have the X1600 Mobility (and hate it) on my laptop. What is the latest Linux kernel we can run with this one? And latest ATI Drivers? 9.3?
This is driving me insane!! No more ATI for me!
The last kernel is 2.6.27 and yes, the lastest driver that will work with your card is the 9.3 version, as far as I know.
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No more ATI for me!
