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ATI had an infuriating tendency to make their cards as impossible to identify, visually, as possible. Two different cards of the same model sold a year apart mi
by astrodust 7y ago
ATI had an infuriating tendency to make their cards as impossible to identify, visually, as possible. Two different cards of the same model sold a year apart might have little in common.
Matrox may not have had cutting-edge cards, but you could at least tell what card you had.
- patrickg_zill 7y agoNot only that but they would change the behavior of a chip between revisions, so drivers for one revision, if they didn't take into account the changes, would suddenly stop working even though you bought the same ( but unknown to you, newer) version of the card. (source: me, who worked at a company that made commercial Linux drivers for Matrox, ATI,NeoMagic etc. chips )