Render Acceleration on ATI r100/r200 chips

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Fri Sep 10 20:50:11 PDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 21:08 +0200, GhePeU wrote:
> I see in the Changelog that Render Acceleration is now supported in
> radeon open source driver (for chips r100/r200, I assume this is valid
> for my radeon 7500 rv200 chip that should be basically a r100 with some
> improvements, am I wrong?), but at present the new features granted by
> composite extension are unusable because everything become awfully slow.
> Is this due to the still uncomplete support and with future release
> there will be speed improvements almost to the level of same-age nvidia
> cards or is this a technical limit of my card and I should consider
> upgrading?

The former.


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