[linux-audio-dev] latency: video card contribution

[Jussi Laako]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 22:14 +0200, Richard Spindler wrote:
> > ati/nvidia one (in this case, nvidia is preferred, because of driver
> > quality).
> 
> For me ATI is preferred, because free (as in Freedom) drivers are
> availably, and even the non-free ones work very well.

I don't see any difference between ATI and nVidia. Both provide
binary-only drivers for 3D. For both, there is open source 2D only
driver available ("radeon" vs "nv"). This is the case for any reasonably
recent GPU.

I have both card brands in my machines, and nvidia's driver seems to
have better quality and especially performance (speed and latency -wise)
compared to ATI.

Only thing where ATI is better is when you need to use TV-output. At
least nvidia's PAL S-Video output has been broken for ages.


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Jussi Laako <jussi.laako at pp.inet.fi>