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vtailor

Member

Registered: 2011-04-09

Posts: 34

The cooking open source ati driver is fast

At least, the ati driver is faster than the open-source ati driver in RIPLinuX, which is no slouch. I ran the Peacekeeper Benchmark using the exact same version of google-chrome on both systems, and here is what I got:

Chrome(v16.0.899.0) under RIPLinuX Scored:

3562 Points

Chrome 16.0.899.0 under Slitaz scored:

3787 points

Both on an E350 AMD board. Note that tests on AMD 350 boards indicate they give the same performance scores.

vtailor

Member

Registered: 2011-04-09

Posts: 34

Re: The cooking open source ati driver is fast

Let me be more specific: The RIPLinuX ati driver is faster than the most recent Slackware and the most recent AbsoluteLinux driver using the Peacekeeper Benchmark and google-chromes. But, the Slitaz ati driver gets the results above in the previous post. I went into Windows 7 pro with the "professional" ati driver and downloaded the latest beta google-chrome for Windows, ran the benchmark, and got the results below:

http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=6mz3

Chrome 16.0.899.0 (Latest Linux beta)

Details

3787

Chrome 15.0.874.83 (Latest W7 beta)

Details

3718

That says the latest Slitaz cooking on another partition of the same computer was running faster than the manufacturer's proprietary driver.

Trixar_za

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: The cooking open source ati driver is fast

This may be because SliTaz runs lighter than Windows 7 so more resources are available. SliTaz also uses a cut down version of xorg, which makes it even lighter on the resources. More resources == better results.