Tom's hardware has put up a great review of GeForce and Radeon video cards on Linux. ATI Radeon X1900 XTX and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX were used as test cards.

They installed drivers for each card on the Fedora Core 5 Linux distribution, commented on the available configuration utilities and finished the review with benchmarks of both cards in the Unreal Tournament 2004 (using the UMark utility).

Final thoughts: "While Nvidia currently exposes more of its underlying card capabilities under Linux than does ATI, the latter has made significant strides. Using only default settings, ATI's visual clarity and color richness is superior to default Nvidia settings. However, the Nvidia settings utility enables a variety of options for configuring general OpenGL library performance, and the many fine-grained antialiasing and anisotropic properties of the underlying graphics card."

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