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A week ago we looked at the brand-new ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics card under Linux. This graphics card launch was unlike any in ATI's history where with the introduction of a brand new product generation, Linux users were greeted by same-day Linux support -- both through their proprietary fglrx driver and with the open-source xf86-video-ati driver. In addition, some of the board partners are opting to put Tux on their product packaging and shipping the Linux drivers on their product CDs. As we had also exclusively shared, AMD will soon be approaching a feature parity between the Windows and Linux drivers (AMD Makes An Evolutionary Leap In Linux Support)....
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Nice cards, but the drivers for linux are still far from ideal.
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Nice cards, but the drivers for linux are still far from ideal.

Don't know what you're talking about. Granted they still have a few bugs in there, but the driver is stable for the most part and performs really well. Just look at those AA scores. The problem with the apparently "low" performance for these new cards, as Bridgman over at Phoronix said, is that the drivers are handicapped on most Linux games; as you can see from the scores using 8xAA, cranking up the post-processing effects gives off better performance, but since most Linux games lack some of the more intense effects (and many of the effects not being implemented on openGL driver side), the cards aren't fully utilized.
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but the driver is stable for the most part
I wouldn't dare to call them stable. I'd give 25% of their performance for a stable 24/7 work.
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