The archives for December 7th, 2007


Dic 7

TexturedRendering on new Catalyst 7.11.

On Phoronix it is appeared a news that, if confirmed, will make the joy of all the possessory ones of cards ati. They are resolutions to discover a hidden option, like such not made official from Amd, that it would allow a remarkable increment in the performances of the graphical acceleration. The option is TextureRender and ejs1920, the menbro of the forum of Phoronix has discovered that it, it reports quite of an increment of the performances of 80% with the benchmark x11perf during the test aa10text that measure glyph compositing the performances (this the link of the post on the forum).
Phoronix reports that in its tests the more meaningful increment of performances refers to the test “Xrender doing non-scaled over blends”, of which filler the diagram

xrender.png

Who is interested to try this option can insert Option “TexturedXrender” “true” to the section device of xorg.conf; I have not still made it because me meeting with the portable one in damage, but me riprometto to try to more soon.
Good rendering to all!