Talk:Radeon/Archives/2013

OpenGL version support on 5xxx

Shown version seems incorrect, at least for Radeon HD 5570 which reports support for OpenGL 4.2 (recent Catalyst, under Linux). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.8.183.50 (talk) 08:17, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Woefully out-of-date on the open source front

If anybody would like to actually do some research, and get the FOSS section improved, I'm more than happy to talk to people and provide a solid link for citations. (However, I'm not actually going to edit the page, because I am User:CorbinSimpson.) On irc.freenode.net, come into #radeon or #radeonhd, or ping me directly (MostAwesomeDude is my nick) or email me (MostAwesomeDude at gmail). 24.21.147.156 (talk) 01:37, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

I noticed the information being linked to for lack of a good optimizing compiler is not very substantial, and a following post in the thread notes what I thought was the case, that the LLVM compiler used is a good enough compiler, if configured properly. It simply needs it's settings tuned. However, this is a long process. The issue of power management has more to do with the handling of clock scaling. The biggest problem is that mode changes must happen on the vsynch during idle time. Currently the driver works fairly well with 2-level scaling, but if you increase it to more than that you end up with frame drops when the CPU up-throttles. Additionally, some boards work better than others.

As a note of where to find up to date resources, the Valve Linux blog has gone into some extensive detail about the Mesa project as a whole. If someone with more knowledge in the field would be willing to go over those articles, they could be of some use for this section. --Robert Wm "Ruedii" (talk) 03:30, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Radeon HD 8000 Series vs. Sea Islands

The Sea Islands series turned out to be a family of OEM graphics cards based on the same architecture (GCN) as the retail HD 7000 series, but marketed as HD 8000 cards. However, the article talks about it being based on GCN 2.0 and releasing in late 2013; that would be the next retail series, so it definitely isn't the Sea Islands series. I'll be removing the Sea Islands name from this again, since the article seems to focus on the retail product lines. But I'm wondering if we could present this confusing product naming scheme better. Sakkura (talk) 20:56, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

I took a shot at this, trying to clean up the 6xxx versus 7xxx information. I found a source saying at least one 7xxx card is sea islands; under linux the radeonsi graphics driver software applies to both sea-islands and southern-islands cards, but previous generations use the radeon driver. Anyways, I'm not sure I've fixed your concern, since I'm not very knowledgeable about the 8xxx versus 7xxx trouble. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 17:02, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Nomenclature needs to be updated to reflect new R9 series naming conventions

87.112.190.88 (talk) 03:53, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Removed statement that ATI doesn't supply laptop drivers

This has changed since 10.3a —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.17.38.58 (talk) 05:50, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Inconsistencies

This article contains a few inconsistencies. Some of the words and more technical terms should provide links to relevant articles. Words should only be wikified once. Some things also need a little more explanation. Parts of the article are inaccessible to people without knowledge of graphics hardware. For example: "The Radeon and Geforce differed in 3D-pipeline configuration (2x3 vs 4x2, respectively)". There should be an explanation, or at least a relevant link to what a 3D-pipeline configuration is. 85.165.9.238 14:29, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)