Radeon HD 3870 open source driver support?

[Maarten Maathuis]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Thomas Ilnseher <illth at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>  Am Dienstag, den 01.04.2008, 14:16 +0200 schrieb Nicolas Mailhot:
>
> > Le Mar 1 avril 2008 01:22, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn a écrit :
>  > > Hi,
>  > > what is the current state of support for the Radeon HD 3870 cards? I
>  > > intend
>  > > to buy a new card soon and I'm aiming for either a 3870 or an NVidia
>  > > 9600GT.
>  >
>  > I had the same dilemma last WE.
>  > Went for a 9600GT because no vendor I trusted had the 3870 (ie there
>  > was an inverse correlation between the level of trust I had in
>  > computer part shops and the probability of them having a 3870 instead
>  > of a 9600GT.
>  >
>  > I can tell you nv is a pig right now with the 9600GT. Slow as hell
>  > (massive software rendering) *and* making the hardware red hot (15 min
>  > of simple 2D in Linux raises the GPU temp more than a few hours of
>  > heavy 3D in windows. Which shows up on my system since the card shuts
>  > the system down when it reaches an unsafe temperature level).
>  I got an 8800GT, and I'm glad with it. Temps are ok, like 45°C after a
>  few hours of gaming, in 2D the temps are around 38°C.
>
>  I have applied a waterblock on the gpu, and use a passive 240x120mm
>  radiator to dissipate the power of CPU+GPU. Rams and voltage converters
>  are passive cooled.
>
>  When I got the card, I tested it with the "stock" cooler, and temps were
>  even LOWER! ("stock" cooler means accelero S1 + Turbo module).
>
>  So Even if you don't intend to do watercooling, I'd recommend getting
>  this card (ECS 8800GT). The drawback is that the "stock" cooler is
>  pretty large (higher than normal, and uses 3 slots in total [yes it's 3!
>  not 2]).
>
>  when I disable lighting, I can get >200fps in nexuiz, at 1920x1200, so I
>  cant't see any slowness.

The person was referring to the open source nv driver. You are
referring to a closed source driver. That's the difference.

>
> >
>  > Thus I don't know if the 3870 is a good choice, but the 9600 GT is
>  > nothing I'd advise on Linux right now.
>  >
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