MorphOS Developer
Posts: 537 from 2003/4/11
From: Germany
Quote:Jim schrieb:
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Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> the last time Frank mentioned it, he was using an X1300 in the SAM
Confirming screenshot from yesterday:
http://scontent-b-cdg.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1460076_336954659780649_885939334_n.jpg
Ah, that is where Yasu dug that up.
I already have people asking me questions about that.
Oh well, one less thing to keep quiet about.
Hopefully not too many people will mistake the X1300 as anything but an entry level card (ATI's numbering scheme can be misleading, if you didn't pay attention you would think an X1300 had better performance than an X800).
Without a doubt, X1300 is a entry level card. But it comes in low profile format without any requirement for a fan, just uses a simple heatsink. That's why we basically have chosen it for the Sam460 setup and we even started our r(v)5xx based driver development based on it. You need to put things into perspective regarding the whole setup, really. E.g. just adding a Radeon HD 7xxx card to a Sam460 won't make it a pmac g5 pcie performance level machine.
We probably could have used a x1650 or x1950 for the event setup instead but that would not have made any difference for the actual presentation. Just consider it as a hint that future MorphOS releases/updates will support Radeon hardware that is beyond the r200/r300 focused scope in the past (which IMHO was kind of logical when you look at the machines that MorphOS supported)
