Open Graphic Card – An Alternative to Nvidia, ATI

I guess GNU/Linux users may have already familiar with the problem related to to 3d graphic cards available nowadays. While they work fine on your Linux operating system, their 3D hardware acceleration heavily depends on closed source binary-only driver.

This means that the driver bloats the system, taints the kernel, and even threat the stability of the operating system. Closed source driver means that we’ve to depend on the vendor for new releases of graphic card driver and bugfixes.

open graphic card

The open graphic card solves those problem by making all specification of the graphic card available under the terms of GNU General Public License. The open graphic card is 3D accelerated video card which is fully documented, free-licensed, and available as open source driver.

Though the open graphic card is not as powerful as the current latest ATI and NVIDIA graphic card, the project itself seems promising, with the prospect of supported free operating system such as GNU/Linux and BSD variant operating system.

According to its website, the PCI and AGP version of the graphic card is given priority first than PCI-express interface. Due to low production output, the estimated card will cost about USD 200, but it will support 3D hardware acceleration nevertheless.

Visit Open Graphics Card website for more information

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