NVIDIA GeForce 7800GTX Linux Preview

daRk_heLmet · Jul 24, 2005, 11:41 PM

Unfortunately, once we witnessed the lackluster performance of the 7800GTX, we were extremely dissapointed. NVIDIA had released new drivers on the same day as the launch of the GeForce 7 series, but its performance was simply missing in action. After seeing our inital results, which were displayed on the previous three pages, we tried the Leadtek 7800GTX on some of our other PCI Express systems, but the Linux performance boost was still minimal compared to the GeForce 6 series. We expect that a majority of the performance downfall is attributed to the 1.0-7667 Linux drivers. After doing some additional testing, we found that the driver problem may be related to a conflict with switching between the 2D and 3D clock frequencies once an OpenGL program is initalized. Once we investigate this issue further and learn any new information relating to the Linux performance, we'll be sure to report back our findings.
_______________________
Read More/Source: Phoronix

MSX · Jul 25, 2005, 02:39 AM

Thats some bad performance on linux. Comparative with the 6800GTX. Well, at least linux users can save some money.

Jul 24, 2005, 11:41 PM	#1
daRk_heLmet Keep firing, assholes! Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Death Star Posts: 1,072 Rep Power: 0	NVIDIA GeForce 7800GTX Linux Preview Unfortunately, once we witnessed the lackluster performance of the 7800GTX, we were extremely dissapointed. NVIDIA had released new drivers on the same day as the launch of the GeForce 7 series, but its performance was simply missing in action. After seeing our inital results, which were displayed on the previous three pages, we tried the Leadtek 7800GTX on some of our other PCI Express systems, but the Linux performance boost was still minimal compared to the GeForce 6 series. We expect that a majority of the performance downfall is attributed to the 1.0-7667 Linux drivers. After doing some additional testing, we found that the driver problem may be related to a conflict with switching between the 2D and 3D clock frequencies once an OpenGL program is initalized. Once we investigate this issue further and learn any new information relating to the Linux performance, we'll be sure to report back our findings. _______________________ Read More/Source: Phoronix __________________ [color=white]My Blog[/color]

Jul 25, 2005, 02:39 AM	#2
MSX Burning the frozen... Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 1,201 Rep Power: 0	Thats some bad performance on linux. Comparative with the 6800GTX. Well, at least linux users can save some money.