Catalyst 5.12 More Dual Core Friendly?
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 12/04/2005 11:37 PM [ Print | 2 comment(s) ] · 2868 views
Friday afternoon we got an email pointing us to the latest beta driver from ATI. One of the key features of this driver is a performance boost for dual core systems. Building a driver to take advantage of parallel processing is quite a task, and extracting any noticeable performance gain out of it is even more difficult. So we are here today to see just what ATI has gotten out of their efforts thus far.
There are really quite a few questions to be asked about this driver. After adding up everything we wanted to do, the sheer number of tests we had laid out was enormous. In an effort to be more efficient ourselves, we decided to break our analysis of the 5.12 driver up. This article is meant as a quick look at the benefits of ATI's dual core enhancements on a few select games running on X1K series hardware. We will compare this driver to the old one as well as dual core performance to single core performance.
Our next look at the 5.12 driver will include a comparison to NVIDIA performance in single and dual core systems, more than one ATI card, more games, and as many more things as we can pack in. Of course we are open to suggestion. But for now, we'll take a look at what we've got to work with.
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There are really quite a few questions to be asked about this driver. After adding up everything we wanted to do, the sheer number of tests we had laid out was enormous. In an effort to be more efficient ourselves, we decided to break our analysis of the 5.12 driver up. This article is meant as a quick look at the benefits of ATI's dual core enhancements on a few select games running on X1K series hardware. We will compare this driver to the old one as well as dual core performance to single core performance.
Our next look at the 5.12 driver will include a comparison to NVIDIA performance in single and dual core systems, more than one ATI card, more games, and as many more things as we can pack in. Of course we are open to suggestion. But for now, we'll take a look at what we've got to work with.
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Aqualung Posts: 3 Joined: 2004-07-11 |
#63501 Posted on: 12/05/2005 12:18 AM
Should I bother updating to newer ATI Catalyst drivers if I am running an old Radeon 7500? What would be the last Catalyst release that makes a difference for the 7500? |
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Mertsch Senior Member Posts: 2708 Joined: 2002-08-22 |
#63515 Posted on: 12/05/2005 10:45 PM
read the realese notes and you do know what exactly is the advantage in general you can expect no performance increase but better support for games / bugfixes |
