Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 524 from 2003/11/25
From: Belgrade
Quote:
Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> Radeon R500 support was actually showed live at Pianeta Amiga 2013 and support for
> R700 (HD4xxx) was already in the works. And Frank Mariak and Mark Olsen told us
> that the plan is to have them both completed for the Sam460 release.
A MorphOS team member now says that support for anything newer than R500 "is unlikely because it would be waste on low end Sams."
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=39534&forum=45#744748
In 2D performance that is true. According to 2D bench top performing SAM460ex card is Radeon X1950 and it beats even newer blood.
http://hdrlab.org.nz/benchmark/gfxbench2d/OS/AmigaOS?start=0
However, once 3D performance is introduced that is likely to change.
However, even R500 family support, and fixing 3D with them and previous families would make a good deal and progress, and some choice of PCI-E cards.
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