Re: Advice on Radeon 7000?

From: Matt Ng (bgc_fan_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/30/03 

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:49:19 GMT

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:12:51 +0000, Rob D. wrote:

> Currently I'm using an ATI 3D Charger card (8MB). Using mplayer on a
> 1.1GHz Athlon, full screen divx movies can't be played without the
> framedrop option, and although it's not severe framedropping, I've had
> at least one other person laugh at how jittery it is.
>
> So, that sets up my question. I'm looking for an AGP 4x (motherboard
> limitation) card that'll allow me to watch movies fullscreen without
> dropping frames. Will the Radeon 7000 have enough muscle to allow this?
> What other cards might fit my criteria?

Personally I'm using an ATI Xpert 2000 card with a P3 1GHz CPU and have
no problems playing DivX movies, so I imagine that a Radeon 7000 would be
more than adequate.

> acceleration (I'd like to avoid binary only drivers). Do X's drivers for
> other chip makers support 3D acceleration?

In a word, it depends. If you look at the XFree86 homepage for 4.3 they
state that they have 3D acceleration for various Radeon types up to 9100
(in their documentation regarding updated drivers). While they say that
the radeon driver supports the Radeon 7000, I don't know if that includes
3D.