[Bf-committers] Blender and ATI

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

 From my long past with opengl I only know there's always issues,  
regardless which brand you choose. Main disadvantage of ATIs is that  
several of their cards/drivers dropped proper (fast) frontbuffer  
drawing. That's a feature being dropped in the Blender UI anyway, and  
it has issues for more graphics cards too.

Apart from the frontbuffer issue, ATIs perform nice. BTW; ATIs in macs  
perform excellent on frontbuffer drawing, so it's really a driver  
issue...

In the Blender code we now have 2 hacks to bypass nvidia issues we  
discovered. At this moment there's a disturbing amount of reports on  
latest nvidia drivers crashing Blender...

Conclusion; it doesn't really matter, for as long our devs have same  
type of cards, so things get patched. :)
I *really* still would like someone collecting a "actively supported  
HW" list.

-Ton-

On 15 Jun, 2005, at 6:44, Stephen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just joined the mailing group so this is my first communication.
> I'm in the process of building a PC/Workstation and right now trying
> to decide between an nVidia or ATI GPU. I've read in various posts of
> various issues regarding ATI cards due to their OpenGL driver support
> (I'll be running 64bit Linux also), and your efforts to help rectify
> these. I'm a software developer (mainly database applications) and
> would like to get involved in helping out with this project. I'm also
> looking to use the software to educate myself with 3D rendering etc.
> As a result would you recommend one or the other of nVidia or ATI
> (either a Radeon X800 XL or GeForce 6800 or similar)? I can possibly
> help with the development of ATI driver support, but I'd want to be
> using the software for rendering also (is there a big difference
> between nVidia and ATI cards, as far as OpenGL is concerned, with
> rendering in Blender on Linux?). From what I've read so far ATI seems
> to have come a long way regarding Linux driver support, but I don't
> know much about their OpenGL efforts compared to nVidia.
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen
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