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AMD Launches World's First Mobile DirectX 11 GPUs
J. Dzhugashvili writes "Less than 4 months after releasing the first DX11 desktop graphics card, AMD has followed up with a whole lineup of mobile graphics processors based on the same architecture. The new Mobility Radeon HD 5000 lineup includes four different series of GPUs designed to serve everything from high-end gaming notebooks to mainstream thin-and-light systems. AMD has based these processors on the same silicon chips as its desktop Radeon HD 5000-series graphics cards, so performance shouldn't disappoint. The company also intends to follow Nvidia's lead by offering notebook graphics drivers directly from its website, as opposed to relying on laptop vendors to provide updates."
I think the far majority of games are x86 windows based games.
You have to remember that x86 itself is a shitty architecture, but is only used because of Window's dominance.
A RISC based architecture would be much better suited for todays computers.
1995 called and wants their "ATI drivers are crap" comment back.
In post Patriot Act America, the library books scan you.
Is this 1990 again? We are back to RISC vs CISC? Intel and AMD showed that decoding CISC to RISC microps can be just as fast as RISC. They gain some performance advantage on the instruction cache hit rate vs pure RISC at the expense of some hardware logic(This only comes into play when compared to very low power devices)
2010 called and wants their ATi card to run stable and stop crashing in any number of PC games: Borderlands, Saboteur etc. There have been public known issues with the 5xxx line of their cards causing system locks because of poor drivers and incompatibilities. http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/03/borderlands-glitch-watch-2009-radeon-powered-pc-crashes/ http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101665 etc. etc.
1995 called and wants their "ATI drivers are crap" comment back.
Obviously you have never tried running Linux on a system with a ATI graphics card.
A RISC based architecture would be much better suited for todays computers.
Is this ignoring the fact that modern x86 chips from Intel are basically RISC chips with a CISC to RISC interpreter bolted on?
Yeah those "poor sods" making multi-million dollar grossing titles. Seriously, I'm all for OpenGL. I like it because it does make ports easier and I'd like to see more games available on Linux and Mac.
The snide "are people STILL using technology X?" comments when technology X is the clear market leader are just annoying though.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
At first glance, from the subject line, I thought your post was a snide comment about the state of official ATI drivers on linux. I must say though, you guys are doing an excellent job at picking up ATI's slack.
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Only all the AAA games on Windows, but clearly you are far more important than them.
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hmm xrandar support, new kernel support? can i run vs. git sources? or just 1-2 releases back? does it support the 57xx and 58xx cards yet? how about TVout? Also can i use the card "hard"(WoW raids) for 4+ hours? and maintain uptimes of weeks? how about the current release of xorg? All of the above only applies to linux.
Anyways until then i'll be sticking with nvidia cards.
All of the above was encrypted with a Quad ROT-13 method. Unauthorized decryption is in violation of the DMCA.
(This only comes into play when compared to very low power devices)
Which of course means "this only comes into play when looking at most widespread devices, shipping at least order of magnitude more units than x86"
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AMD is developing the open-source drivers. It's paying people to work on them. Does that make them not AMD's drivers?
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Your post is roughly fourteen months out-of-date. In the past year, TTM and GEM have both matured and been submitted to the main kernel, providing memory management services to nouveau, radeon, intel, and via. GLX 1.4 support is now advertised server-side for DRI2 stacks.
In Mesa, most of GLSL is now supported by the drivers that can accelerate it, and the actual GLSL hooks are now in place for r600 and i965. Additionally, in Gallium, work is underway to provide GL 2.0+ on i915, i965, r300+, and nv30+ (all GeForces after 2004 or so.)
I do feel the need to nitpick a few things. GL 2.1 is pure lies on many chipsets, including a fair number of nV GPUs, so nvidia is not being exactly honest. Additionally, nV has not always provided drivers for the newest and latest GPUs on the market, causing the agonizingly slow vesa driver to be used instead. Finally, you completely glossed over 2D, which is not surprising, because nouveau has been faster than nvidia in all 2D rendering besides video for a while.
Believe it or not, we are at a point where the graphics situation on open-source operating systems is no longer dire.
~ C.