蓝宝石 Radeon HD 5830 Extreme（2）
The benefit for Linux users of Sapphire re-launching a graphics card from a previous generation is that the open and closed-source support is already mature. This $130 graphics card already has mature Catalyst support for those interested in maximum performance and features while the open-source side also has sufficient "out of the box" support in modern Linux distributions. On the open-source side there is kernel mode-setting support and classic Mesa / Gallium3D drivers.
因为上一代显卡的开源/闭源驱动已经很成熟，Linux 用户会从重启这款显卡而受益。130 美元的显卡已经获得成熟的催化剂驱动的支持，开源驱动可以支持流行的 Linux 发行版的 “开箱即用” 。在开源驱动方面，使用了内核模式和经典 Mesa 驱动/Gallium3D 驱动。
Pulling the very latest open-source driver code is recommended (as always) for supporting the latest OpenGL extensions in Mesa, better performance, etc. In particular, Radeon DRI2 page-flipping, among other features, have landed recently with the best experience to be found in Fedora 15, Ubuntu 11.04, and other distribution updates coming soon.
推荐使用最最新的开源驱动，它们带有 Mesa 提供的最新的 OpenGL 扩展，这样性能更好。尤其是 Radeon DRI2 page-flipping。要想获得最好的体验，建议使用 Fedora 15、Ubuntu 11.04 以及其它的将要推出的 Linux 发行版。
In this article are the benchmarks of the Sapphire Radeon HD 5830 from the Catalyst Linux driver while in the next few days they will be joined by benchmarks of the open-source Gallium3D driver for the HD 5830 and similar GPUs.
这篇文章是对 Linux 催化剂下的蓝宝石 Radeon HD 5830 进行评测，未来我门将加入 HD 5830 在使用 Gallium3D 的开源驱动的性能进行测试。
This testing was done on a system with an Intel Core i5 2500K "Sandy Bridge" CPU, Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra, 4GB of system memory, and 250GB Seagate SATA HDD. This testing was done on an Ubuntu 10.10 x86_64 installation with the Linux 2.6.35 kernel, GNOME 2.32 desktop, X.Org Server 1.9.0, Catalyst 11.3, NVIDIA 270.30, GCC 4.4.5, and an EXT4 file-system.
测试使用英特尔 Core i5 2500k “Sandy Bridge” CPU，蓝宝石 Pure Black P67 Hydra 主板，4GB 内存，250GB 希捷 SATA 硬盘。安装 Ubuntu 10.10 x68_64 系统，系统包含 Linux 2.6.35 kernel、GNOME 2.32、X.Org Server 1.9.0、催化剂 11.3、NVIDIA 270.30、GCC 4.4.5、EXT4 文件系统。
For comparison to the Radeon HD 5830 we benchmarked some of the similar graphics cards that we had on hand. These included the Radeon HD 4830 512MB, Radeon HD 5770 1GB, Radeon HD 6870 1GB, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB. Benchmarks in this article via the Phoronix Test Suite included Nexuiz, Warsow, Lightsmark, Unigine Tropics, and Unigine Heaven.
作为比较，我们准备了几款和 Radeon HD 5830 相似的显卡。包括 Radeon HD 4830 512MB、Radeon HD 5770 1GB、Radeon HD 6870 1GB、NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB。基准 Phoronix 测试套件包括 Neuiz、Warsow、Lightsmark、Unigine Tropics、Unigine Heaven。
When running the popular open-source Nexuiz game at 2560 x 1600, the Sapphire Radeon HD 5830 is approximately 20% faster than the Radeon HD 5770 and GeForce GTX 460. At lower resolutions with Nexuiz the performance between these two competitors though is much closer due to Nexuiz not being too stressful on modern hardware with proprietary drivers. The Radeon HD 6870 was faster than the Radeon HD 5830 by about 20%.
当在开源驱动下以 2560x1600 的分辨率运行 Nexuiz 时，蓝宝石 Radeon HD 5830 比 Radeon HD 5770 和 GeForce GTX 460 快 20% 。在分辨率比较低时性能会比较接近。Radeon HD 6870 比 Radeon HD 5830 快大约 20% 。
The situation with Warsow was similar for these graphics cards. The Sapphire Radeon HD 5830 is 58% faster than the previous-generation Radeon HD 4830 for this Qfusion-powered open-source game.
Warsow 的测试成绩和上面的相似。运行这款基于 Qfusion-powered 开源游戏，蓝宝石 Radeon HD 5830 比上一代的 Radeon HD 4830 快 58% 。
With the OpenGL Lightsmark lighting benchmark, the Radeon HD 5830 was faster than the HD 4830 by 2.17x. It was also faster than the GeForce GTX 460 by 35% and 20% for the Radeon HD 5770. The Radeon HD 6870 was ahead by 17%.
在 OpenGL Lightsmark lighting 测试下，Radeon HD 5830 的速度是 HD 4830 的 2.17 倍。它也比 GeForce GTX 460 快 35%，比 Radeon HD 5770 快 20%。Radeon HD 6870 比他快 17%。
本文摘自：phoronix