Sapphire Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB Preview | Linux Today

Sapphire Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB Preview

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Michael Larabel
Aug 14, 2007

“There is no R600 Linux driver yet, but as we have shared before
it is coming later this year. When the Linux support does arrive,
we will be delivering same-day Linux benchmarks with a plethora of
different graphics cards as well as seeing if the new AMD Linux
driver can finally outperform NVIDIA’s binary driver and hardware,
which for years has been faster under Linux. Among the many
graphics cards that we will be using to deliver these initial
benchmarks is the Sapphire Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB. In this preview
while being stuck with the old driver, we have a few words to say
on Sapphire’s fastest 512MB GPU aside from what we had shared in
our launch-day Radeon HD 2900XT coverage…”


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Michael Larabel

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