AMD Finally Launches Low-Price DX10 Cards

Steve Kerrison writes "The Radeon 'R600' HD 2900 XT was late coming, and so by extension are the lower cost parts derived from it. The Radeon HD 2400 and 2600s are now available, just the same, with pricing aimed at knocking mid-range GeForce 8 series cards off people's shopping lists. There's more to a graphics card than price; performance and driver functionality are key too. HEXUS had some fun and games testing the new Radeons: 'The hardware designers may now be sitting back, content that their DX10-supporting midrange SKUs are at least as compelling as the competition's. But, and it's a big, big but, the current drivers aren't realizing the kind of performance we'd expect from a knowledge of the Radeon HD 2600 XT's setup.'" A very useful article ... unfortunately spread across a dozen pages with no 'print view' available.

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Re:So how bout that open source?

[LWATCDR]

I have an ATI card in my notebook and it works fine with Linux using the FOSS drivers. A little slow but it works.
I love how I get blasted for this when people don't even both to read my post. I said maybe the the FOSS community could write better drivers. But I doubt that they could in as the grandparent posted do it in just a few months with just the specs. Frankly I doubt that it would happen in year unless ATI/AMD helped. Notice that the Intel's FOSS video drives have a lot of code written by and paid for Intel. Nothing wrong with that but it takes more than just handing over what the registers and memory locations do to get a good FOSS driver. FOSS isn't magic and does not always produce the best software in any field. It has produced some great software and some of it is absolutely top notch. But for every Firefox there are thousands of projects stuck at V0.8.
Gimp is very good but Photoshop is better.
There is nothing in the FOSS market that can touch Solidworks or Autocad or even TurboCad which is not even close to Solidworks in power and ease of use.
Like I said FOSS isn't magic.
It however often amazing.