Xglx (partial) success story

[Jon Smirl]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:13:52 -0500, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 12 March 2005 21:20, Francesco Biscani wrote:
> > I'm asking: is the IGP much slower because of the lack of pbuffer support
> > or for some other reason? Or because the hw acceleration is not so good as
> > ATI's binary drivers'?
> 
> IGP chipsets don't have their own VRAM and have to use system RAM for
> everything, IIRC.  So you're bound to the system bus bandwidth, which is not
> nearly as high as it is on a real card.
> 

Doesn't XGL start software rendering when pbuffers are missing? It
would interesting to see a comparison between ATI and DRM
implementations for XGL.

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Jon Smirl
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