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Is AMD's New 2D Acceleration Architecture Still Slow?
Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 06/21/2010 08:22 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]
Phoronix takes a look at the Catalyst 10.6 driver for Linux
Earlier this week AMD released the Catalyst 10.6 driver that on the Linux side of the table had finally made use by default of their new 2D acceleration architecture, offered official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5, and formalized their OpenGL 3.3/4.0 support. Since the release of the Catalyst 10.6 Linux driver, we have been running a new set of tests on their new ATI 2D acceleration architecture, but the results are not what you may expect when compared to the open-source ATI Linux driver.
Is AMD's New 2D Acceleration Architecture Still Slow?
