[ltp] Any hope for Radeon M6 LY?

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 15:05:13 +0100, Tomek Jarzynka <tomeej@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I own a T40. Unfortunately, it's equipped with Radeon M6 LY
> and I get no more than 360 fps in glxgears.
> 
> Has anyone had success with getting this card to work faster?
> Are there any plans for better support of this chipset?
> I know it's inferior to M7, but in Windows I get decent
> performance while in Linux it's more like a Voodoo 2 or
> less.
> 

360 fps in gears isn't too bad for an m6.  mesa and drm cvs have
support for hyperz (Z buffer compression) which should speed things
up.  There is also a patch for tiled framebuffer support being
discussed now on dri-devel, which also adds a nice speed speed boost.

Alex

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