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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Do open drivers use different GPU abilities?
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:10:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <j94c9f$ieq$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw3tDG_cFmiVcQZgff3HcmxV8UU=gz=_2A=dKUMwc8Cf2Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/05/2011 11:51 PM, Grant wrote:
> Does anyone know if open-source video drivers like radeon use the
> different GPU's in different cards differently?  Maybe not and there
> is just a flat identical acceleration for all of the radeon cards?

The GPUs are different, so yes, the driver needs to handle them differently.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-05 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-05 21:51 [gentoo-user] {OT} Do open drivers use different GPU abilities? Grant
2011-11-05 22:10 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2011-11-06 16:45   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant
2011-11-06 17:24     ` James Broadhead
2011-11-06 22:47     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-11-07  3:01       ` Grant

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