Cool, thanks! On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:57 AM Michael Butash wrote: > Running the "glxinfo" command will give you too much information, but in > theory what you want to know about capabilities to a tee. > > What you really want to know is just which is better performing, well it's > all relative in theory. The newer card will be higher performance, ideally > less buggy, etc. Look at phoronix.com for various gpu reviews under > linux if you want to know what is best. They include historic cards > occasionally to see where yours probably lie. > > Probably worth spending a 100 bucks and getting a decent low-end modern > gpu though in any regard. Memory and a SSD drive too improves any old > system drastically I find. > > -mb > > > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 1:05 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> while I'm at it how do I see the capabilities of his on-board gfx? >> >> >> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 3:46 PM Michael wrote: >> > >> > my father is giving me his 5 yr old computer and it doesn't have a gfx >> > card. I have a 10 yr old gfx card in the computer it is replacing. >> > which is probably better? >> > lspci >> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. >> > [AMD/ATI] RV770 [Radeon HD 4850] >> > >> > -- >> > :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: