Xglx (partial) success story
Adam Jackson
ajax at nwnk.net
Sat Mar 12 19:13:52 PST 2005
On Saturday 12 March 2005 21:20, Francesco Biscani wrote:
> I'm asking: is the IGP much slower because of the lack of pbuffer support
> or for some other reason? Or because the hw acceleration is not so good as
> ATI's binary drivers'?
IGP chipsets don't have their own VRAM and have to use system RAM for
everything, IIRC. So you're bound to the system bus bandwidth, which is not
nearly as high as it is on a real card.
- ajax
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