Nov 15, 2018 AMD Radeon HD 6290 vs AMD Radeon HD 7290. Mobility Radeon HD Intel HD Graphics Both GPUs exhibit very poor performance, so rather than upgrading from one to the other you should consider looking at more powerful GPUs. In the following list you can select and also search for devices that should be added to the comparison. AMD/ATI Open Source Drivers (amdgpu, radeon, r128, mach64). Source display drivers for ATI/AMD graphics hardware on Debian systems.
I'm not sure about performance, but I do have something to say about stability (but take it with a grain of salt, likely YMMV). My laptop failed to suspend/wake (to/from RAM) with the X.Org X server, but not with fglrx-updates or fglrx-experimental-xx. Checking syslog shows that the problem was with an (instance of) Xorg process.
Just putting it out there for reference. Remember, YMMV. It was very similar to this. Purging the driver, and installing the latest fglrx-experimental-xx fixed it.–Apr 10 '13 at 2:47. The xorg open source driver is far more stable than the proprietary one, so if you don't need any of the features of the proprietary driver, stay with the open source driver.Fglrx and fglrx-updates are the same when a new version of Ubuntu is released. Fglrx-updates later is updated when newer drivers are released by AMD, while fglrx is in general not updated until you upgrade to a new release of Ubuntu. And another thing: If you want to watch videos on the laptop, you'll probably need hardware decoding.
For this you need to use the proprietary drivers. In addition you'll need to install the hardware decoding libraries: libva (maybe also libva-dev), libva-x11-1, libva-glx1, xvba-va-driver. To see if it's working, install vainfo and run it in a terminal. If it lists various (if I remember correctly 2) profiles, hardware decoding support is installed correctly. The only player available on Ubuntu that supports hardware decoding out of the box is vlc. Check input and codec settings to enable it.–Apr 11 '13 at 8:14.
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