anyone have benches of video cards running a game in a window?

[ElFenix]

i don't necessarily run games full screen all the time (MMORPGs almost never). as cards usually clock down when they don't see a game running full screen, the benchmarks might be completely different. the new damit cards are supposed to ramp up under load regardless of if it is in a window or not, do the nvidia cards?

 

[cmdrdredd]

"damit cards?"

I know for a fact that ATI's drivers only change the clock speed to the 3D clocks when running full screen. Unless you force the clocks up in 2D mode or turn off the little tool the drivers use to detect a game running and change the clocks and force the clocks in a 3rd party application.

 

[ElFenix]

One of the cool side effects of PowerPlay is that clock speeds are no longer determined by application state. On previous hardware, 3d clock speeds were only enabled when a fullscreen 3D application started. This means that GPU computing software (like folding@home) was only run at 2D clock speeds. Since these programs will no doubt fill the command queue, they will get full performance from the GPU now. This also means that games run in a window will perform better which should be good news to MMO players everywhere.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3151&p=2