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#1 2014-04-16 12:38:46
- Darksoul71
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Q: What to expect from AMD E350 and Radeon drivers ? [solved]
Hi all,
as you might tell from my footer my main PC is an AMD E350 with an integrated AMD 6310 GPU. Since I had severe issues one or two years ago with the integrated GPU I added a PCIe GeForce 9500GT.
I am currently thinking about moving the mainboard into a smaller ITX encasing which would mean that I have to dump the PCIe GeForce.
My questions to you fellow archers with a similar APU (e.g. AMD E450) what can I expect from the open-source Radeon in combination with the 6310 GPU ?
Does dual-head work nicely ? Does 3D acceleration work without hickup ? And even more important to me: Does video acceleration for 1080p stuff work on top of radeon via va-api and MPlayer ?
TIA,
D$
Last edited by Darksoul71 (2014-04-16 19:29:08)
My archlinux x86_64 host:
AMD E350 (2x1.6GHz) / 8GB DDR3 RAM / GeForce 9500GT (passive) / Arch running from 16GB USB Stick
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#2 2014-04-16 15:48:20
- jsoy9pQbYVNu5nfU
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Re: Q: What to expect from AMD E350 and Radeon drivers ? [solved]
E450 here (has HD6320). As for what you asked …
1. 3D Acceleration: stellar improvements during the 3.11-3.13 timeframe. Still feels like it is at ~60-70% of the fglrx performance, but I can play Xonotic @ 50fps – which is a quite fast shooter. So yes, it definitely is usable. Also: definitely use glamor.
2. Dual head works fine (using the FOSS driver. Never tried fglrx).
3. va-api works with both the FOSS and proprietary driver. 1080p in regular x264 plays fine. hi10p-encoded videos don't play from 720p upwards though because it can't use hardware decoding, and the system is generally too slow to compensate for that.
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#3 2014-04-16 19:28:37
- Darksoul71
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Re: Q: What to expect from AMD E350 and Radeon drivers ? [solved]
Thanks a lot for your reply ! My 1080p stuff is rarely something special. Mostly either BD rips I did myself, stuff from Youtube and sometimes satellite recordings.
Sounds pretty much that I will need to invest some time again and play around with my E350 APU and radeon.
My archlinux x86_64 host:
AMD E350 (2x1.6GHz) / 8GB DDR3 RAM / GeForce 9500GT (passive) / Arch running from 16GB USB Stick
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