graphics card

[Michael]

Cool, thanks!

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:57 AM Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> 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 at 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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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]
>> >
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