“Since AMD introduced their new Linux display driver last month, we have published a number of different articles looking at the Radeon performance across their different GPU product generations. This ATI/AMD Linux driver testing and exploration continued this month with the release of the 8.42 driver, which finally introduced AIGLX support for the fglrx driver. One area though we haven’t yet analyzed is how their official Linux driver now compares to their much-optimized Windows Catalyst driver. Today, however, we will be looking just at that as we compare the ATI Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB performance under Linux and Microsoft Windows Vista.”Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- Thermaltake DuOrb VGA Cooler Review @ NGOHQ
- Calibre P860 Videocard @ BurnOutPC
- A Dramatic Leap Forward—GeForce 8800 GT @ ExtremeTech
- XFX Geforce 8800 GTS 320 Fatal1ty Video Card Review @ Madshrimps
- 8800GT DX10 Gaming Performance @ BCCHardware
- Reinventing the G80 – the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB @ Hardware Zone
- ASUS GeForce 8600GT OC Gear 256MB @ Phoronix
- MSI NX8600GT Twin Turbo Video Card Review @ OCC
Driver or the OS, which is to blame

Support for ATI/AMD graphics cards on Linux has been improving in huge leaps and bounds, thanks to the community that has been working on it and AMD for releasing specs to the open source community. Phoronix has published a review that may shatter some of your preconceptions about Linux, pitting Vista versus Fedora to see which can handle Quake Wars and Doom3 better.