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AMD Delivers Significant Graphics Performance and Compatibility Enhancements for Consumer Linux Users

With the forthcoming Catalyst 7.9 software release in September, AMD will add Linux support for the ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 series of graphics processors. The Radeon HD 2000 series offer a number of compelling new features for Linux users including AMD’s patented unified shader architecture.

In addition to expanded GPU support, Catalyst™ 7.9 is being designed to offer a number of major performance improvements across the board with users seeing up to 90 per cent improvement in such popular titles as Doom 3 and Quake 4 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item=823&num=3). In Q4 2007, AMD’s Catalyst software package for Linux will add support for Accelerated Indirect GLX (AIGLX). AIGLX is an enabling technology that allows Linux users to enjoy a rich visual 3D user interface that provides a more immersive end-user compute experience.

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/pr/84

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http://game.amd.com/ online

[Warran]

ATI plní sliby a uvolňuje část dokumentace ke svým GPU, zatím prý pro 2D.

Svět hardware:
http://www.svethardware.cz/akt.jsp?a...257356004F6334

DDWorld:
http://www.ddworld.cz/graficke-karty...ace-gpu-2.html

Samotná dokumentace:
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/

Bravo, už se těším na pořádnou podporu v Linuxu a pravděpodobně na mnohem větší možnosti v prográmcích typu RivaTuner, ATI tray tool apod.

[Bob van Sikorski]

no kdyz uz tady linkujes jak blazen, tak dodam:

http://cdr.cz/a/22369
http://www.abclinuxu.cz/zpravicky/pr...ati-jsou-venku

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Folding@Home pro R6xx a G8x bude...

Pro známý projekt Folding@Home, který se loni dočkal zařazení do seznamu GP-GPU aplikací, byla již před mnoha měsíci ohlášena podpora Radeonů HD a GeForce 8. Vývojáři Stanfordské univerzity konečně překonali počáteční problémy a ačkoli je čeká ještě mnoho práce, začalo se konečně blýskat na lepší časy...

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Přestože není reálné očekávat plně funkčního GP-GPU klienta pro současné DX10 čipy v řádech týdnů a dokonce není nepravděpodobné, že bychom se ho mohli dočkat až po vydání další (půl)generace grafických karet (DX10.1+), bude hotové univerzální rozhraní znamenat snazší uzpůsobení i pro další produkty, čímž by se současný skluz mohl velmi rychle dohnat. Nezbývá než popřát M.Houstonovi a F@H týmu hodně štěstí – stonásobné zrychlení výzkumu v praxi může znamenat, že k poznatkům, ke kterým bychom se za použití loňských prostředků dostali za 100 let, se můžeme dopracovat již během příštího roku...

http://www.extrahardware.cz/node/72

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Catalyst 7.10 - očekávány do týdne

Email from Highroad Communications (assist AMD with North American PR) today on 7.10. They've made it available to press with an FTP account, and expect to post it for general use this week. They're calling it the "Shoot Em Up" driver. Here's what they say about the Vista version . . . .

• Battlefield 2142 Crossfire™ performance improves 5-23% on the ATI Radeon™ HD 2600, ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 and ATI Radeon™ X1300/X1550 series
• Call of Duty 2 performance improves up to 6.7% on both single card and Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 2600 and ATI Radeon HD 2400 configurations
• Call of Juarez DirectX® 10 Crossfire performance improves up to 42% and single card performance improves up to 34% on all ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 series products.
• Company of Heroes DirectX 10 Crossfire performance improves up to 80% on all ATI Radeon HD 2000 series products and single card performance improves as much as 31% on ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 and ATI Radeon HD 2600 products
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Crossfire performance improves as much as 23% on ATI Radeon™ 1000 series products and single card performance improves as much as 23% on both ATI Radeon HD 2000 and ATI Radeon 1000 series products
• FEAR Crossfire performance improves as much as 16% on the ATI Radeon™ X1950 XTX, ATI Radeon™ X1650 XT, ATI Radeon HD 2400 series and ATI Radeon X1300/X1550 series
• Supreme Commander Crossfire performance improves up to 30% on all ATI Radeon HD 2000 and ATI Radeon 1000 series products. The ATI Radeon™ X1650 and ATI Radeon X1300/X1550 series products see even greater improvements of 82% or more.

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DX10 Gaming Performance Review - Catalyst 7.10

Single GPU Performance

The move from the 7.9 driver to the 7.10 "Shoot-em-up" Catalyst update didn't have much of an effect on our single graphics card performance at all. In only one or two instances did we see any changes, and neither was what I would call "drastic" enough to change my opinion on the HD 2900 XT for the current generation of DX10 games. The HD 2900 XT is a solid competitor against NVIDIA's 8800 GTS 640MB, but the Catalyst 7.10 driver hasn't done anything to overtake it.

Multi-GPU Scaling Performance

The real magic of AMD's Catalyst 7.10 update comes when you plug in a second HD 2900 XT card -- our CrossFire experiences with this driver were WORLDS above what we had to deal with on the 7.9 driver revision. In all of our games we saw notable improvements in the scaling of CrossFire and in some cases turned a negative performance gain into a strong positive one. In Bioshock we saw a 54% gain in CrossFire performance, in Company of Heroes we saw a 73% gain and in World of Conflict a 93% gain. The other two titles, Call of Juarez and Lost Planet, which already had CrossFire scaling with the 7.9 driver, still saw improvements of 9% and 20% respectively when tested with the new Catalyst 7.10 drivers.

PC Perspective