Xglx (partial) success story

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Sat Mar 12 19:13:52 PST 2005


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.

- ajax
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