On Sunday 03 February 2002 09:30, gilson redrick wrote:
Hi! I hope you don't mind my 1/2-penny well-intentioned remark:
:)
The current issue of _Smart Computing_ tested it and says: "The Radeon 8500 is compatible with Win98/Me/2000/XP operating systems." [No word about Linux, which they do for the Matrox Millenium G550.]
;(
Then, "If you want 3-D eye candy, the Radeon 8500 will deliver a bagful of it. However, if games aren't your thing, you should pass in favor of a less expensive card [$299], because the Radeon 8500 doesn't run 2-D applications any faster than video cards that cost half as much."
right. But from XFree 4.2.0, they mention about Radeon 7500. It cost less than Matrox Millenium G550 (& GF2MX-DualHead). It has dual head. But I don't know the performance. (In Windows Radeon 7500 beat Matrox Millenium G550 & beat GF2MX)... But that's in Windows. Anyone had benchmark for Radeon 7500 vs. Matrox G550 in Linux?
You may read the whole article at www.smartcomputing.com/mar02/.
thanks for the link.