How would have AMD impeded use of good 3D cards? Even if you thought nVidia SLI was the only 'good' answer, there are nForce chipsets for AMD with SLI too... I personally don't buy into the price-power-performance ratio of SLI or CrossFire, btw.
You can't get an AMD computer with a 3D card with decent drivers under Linux. My experiences with the NVidia drivers have been less than stellar.
This comment is months out of date. Just go to Phoronix and get the facts - AMD's open-source graphics drivers are quite good, and their proprietary graphics drivers have great performance. This has been true ever since the major-overhaul-of-their-driver-stack cum release-of-specs some time ago.
If you're going to be using the open-source drivers, there is no point in getting a new expensive card because you aren't going to get decent 3d performance anyways; if you're worried about VRAM, grab the cheapest discrete card you can find, and otherwise stick with integrated graphics.
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How would have AMD impeded use of good 3D cards? Even if you thought nVidia SLI was the only 'good' answer, there are nForce chipsets for AMD with SLI too... I personally don't buy into the price-power-performance ratio of SLI or CrossFire, btw.
You can't get an AMD computer with a 3D card with decent drivers under Linux. My experiences with the NVidia drivers have been less than stellar.
This comment is months out of date. Just go to Phoronix and get the facts - AMD's open-source graphics drivers are quite good, and their proprietary graphics drivers have great performance. This has been true ever since the major-overhaul-of-their-driver-stack cum release-of-specs some time ago.
If you're going to be using the open-source drivers, there is no point in getting a new expensive card because you aren't going to get decent 3d performance anyways; if you're worried about VRAM, grab the cheapest discrete card you can find, and otherwise stick with integrated graphics.
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But he's still forwarding X over the SSH tunnel!!!
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