ATI Chipsets

[Corbin Simpson]

Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 15:44 -0700, Corbin Simpson wrote:
>> Thomas J. Baker wrote:
>>> What's the current (Fedora 10 current) best ATI chipset/driver
>>> combination that has a GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE of at least 4096? I got an
>>> R300 for F9 but it only supported a max texture of 2048 so compiz didn't
>>> work correctly. I want to find a relatively cheap ($100 or so) best
>>> supported 3D capable (compiz, googleearth, low end game 3D) card. Also,
>>> was the 2048 an R300 limit, or a chipset limit? 
>> The r5xx series (X1xxx) is supported by F9 and has full open-source
>> compiz support. The best card in the series is the X1950, and it runs
>> about $80 or so on Newegg, sometimes less.
>>
>> Also, the limit is a chipset limit, not a driver limit.
>>
>> ~ C.
>>
> 
> Thanks for the info. I figured it was a chipset issue. I should clarify
> too that the R300 works perfectly well, just not with my two monitors.
> 
> Is the support any worse with the r6xx series? Newegg has some 3850
> cards that are cheaper than the $150 X1950s they currently have.

Wow, for some reason, the cheap X1950s are all gone. The X1650s aren't
much slower, and should work fine for your purposes; I only mentioned
the X1950 because it (used to be?) comparitively cheap.

Anyway, no, there's *no* acceleration in the HD 2xxx series and up, so
unless you're willing to brave the horrors of fglrx, I'd stick with
something in the 1xxx series.

~ C.

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