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From: Gianluca Interlandi (gianluca_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 17 2011 - 00:09:01 CDT

Hi,

I am wondering which one is faster for VMD in Linux, Intel HD3000 or ATI
Mobility Radeon 6310? I am comparing here the Thinkpads X120e (with AMD
Fusion E350 Processor) and X220 (with Intel i7).

According to notebookcheck, the Intel HD3000 should be faster:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-3000.37948.0.html

However, those benchmarks are run under windows and the Linux drivers are
not quite there yet:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_hd3000_winbuntu&num=1

In particular, mesa 7.11 is not available in all distributions yet
(although ubuntu has it).

Does anybody have any recommendation or experience with one of these
graphics chips in Linux?

Thanks,

      Gianluca

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