[wplug] ATI 9250 vs. Matrox G450

[Robert E. Coutch]

Just an FYI

I ran the Radeon 9200 card for quite some time.
It is an AGP 8X card with 128MB RAM.

I used it on a 2.2GHz Athlon XP system.

It could run Enemy Territory (based on Quake 3 engine) at a 43FPS most of the 
time.  I capped my FPS at 43 because the card could rarely do 76FPS.
Those who do Quake3 engine games will know what I'm talking about.

It also did a decent job running GTK Radiant which is used to do level design.

The best part was having the drivers in the kernel modules and not having to 
do anything after a kernel upgrade.

The Nvidia card kicks butt with an easy 76FPS cap but it is a pain to get it 
working after a kernel update.

Let me know how the 9250 works out as it's always good to keep a few Linux 
compatable cards laying about and those can be had fairly cheaply.

-Bob 

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 12:26 pm, Vance Kochenderfer wrote:
> "Robert E. Coutch" wrote:
> > I thought the Radeon 9200 was the last card with open source drivers
> > and that the 9250 needed the binary from ATi to do 3D.
>
> According to <http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATI>, the 9200 is the
> highest supported, but that page hasn't been updated in over a
> year.  <http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon> says that the
> 9250 is currently the highest ATI chipset that has stable open
> source drivers, and it seems to be the up-to-date page.  (But
> unfortunately, it's difficult to navigate that wiki.)
>
> >From the responses, it sounds like the ATI-based card would be at
>
> least as good as the Matrox, so that pretty much answers my
> question.  Thanks to everyone who replied.
>
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