Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 524 from 2003/11/25
From: Belgrade
Quote:takemehomegrandma wrote:
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redrumloa wrote:
What's worse than paying for 3d drivers like this, it sounds like they are tied to the system and they will have to pay for newer versions.
Not only this, but they have to buy new GFX cards altogether to be able to get these fantastic results. No Sam460 system ever came with the required HD7xxx/R7 cards and neither did the X1000 systems back when they were new.
Heck, even today (2 minutes ago) the suggested standard configuration in Amigakit's X1000 store suggests a Radeon HD5450 card...
...even though it's now also possible to upgrade this to a Radeon R7 250X for some additional 75 Euros.
And this is AFAIK the only way to get any kind of 3D at all...?
Other way is to insert Radeon 9000 card in PCI slot without need to pay for drivers, but that is kind of easy abomination and temporary stopgap.
True, I bough it with top notch AmigaKit offered RadeonHD 6870 card and 2D driver for AmigaOS, and now I am supposed to buy new gfx card and new driver? I am glad for those who have corresponding card, but I will rather wait for driver for my card or AmigaOS 4.2 I have prepaid.
I have done two Linux tests, and while its "Duron class dual core CPU" with fast RAM transfers. Disk transfers are crippled by slow bundled hard drive - bad choice. I would prefer costing it a bit more with a bit decent hardrive.
I have done tests under "AEON recommended" Debian 12.04 with Unity
http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1310106-AR-AMIGAONE027#overview_table
and Mint11PPC64, crossover of Debian and Mint with LXDE.
While hardware dependent RAM transfer did change, there were some minor differences in disk speed and some calculations (leading to conclusion some speed can be bough by optimization)
phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1310265-SO-AMIGAONEX04
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iMac G5 1GB with MorphOS and MacOS X
Lame PC with AmiKit XE
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