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ATI Radeon HD 2900XT On Linux

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Back when the Radeon X1000 "R500" series support finally arrived for Linux, it came six months after the hardware was actually launched and the Linux performance was down the drain. In some benchmarks the ATI Radeon X1800XL 256MB was outperformed by the earlier Radeon X800XL and was clobbered by the NVIDIA GeForce 7800GTX being as much as four times faster. As we have been sharing all day, the fglrx 8.41 Linux driver finally turns the table where not only the Radeon X1000 performance is finally in order but all of their supported product families received a very nice performance boost. Four months after the availability of the Radeon HD 2900XT, the 8.41 fglrx driver now supports the R600 product family under Linux. We have multiple Radeon HD 2000 "R600" GPUs at hand for testing, but in this article we are focusing upon AMD's current flagship model, the Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB. The performance of the Radeon HD 2900XT under Linux is certainly astonishing after the previous performance shortcomings by ATI/AMD.

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Comments (3)

henke54 ·
Quoting:We know what AMD is doing and in the near future Phoronix will be sharing with you what they will be doing to accelerate their open-source efforts, but feel free to share your thoughts and hopes about this move in the Phoronix Forums. As glorious as these new performance numbers are for the R300/400, R500, and R600, what AMD will be sharing in the near future with this announcement is equally exciting.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=825&num=1
Sander_Marechal ·
I hope so! They have hinted at it some time back at the Red Hat conference as well.

/me crosses fingers

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