Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
No... it's quite possible they are selectively optimizing those games. I still don't think it will pan out like they say, but there will be at least some improvement. Theoretically there is that potential though. Usually the graphics would be of lower quality as a byproduct of that. I guess doing this isn't "cheating"? This could be more of the Quack3 crap. What do you guys think?
Games are already optimized individually. You are confusing it with 3dMark, in which case they cannot optimize for each specific test. Of course there will be SOME improvement. However no where even remotely close to what Inquirer is stating.
Like i said earlier, if they were horrible drivers i could understand a performance boost of the caliber. Or if the drivers had a fundamental flaw. Or if there was a bug in the game. However ATI's drivers, as well as Nvidia's, really have none of those problems. The reason Nvidia may still have more performance left in drivers is because the NV40 architecture is completely new. ATI's on the other hand is based off of an existing architecture, therefore those drivers are very well refined.
-Kevin
What did the article say?:
you should see around ten per cent plus performance increase in 3Dmark05, Aquamark 3 and Halo and Tomb Raider: AOD games and benchmarks. ATI did this by using some Z optimisations, removing unseen pixels before running through the pixel shaders. I guess that this is an allowed method and Halo might be running even fifteen per cent faster.
~10-[maybe]15% is NOT unreasonable . . . i already saw +10 from the 4x Cats to the 5x Cats in 3DMark05 . . . another 10% just means ATI learned how to optimize better.
TR:AoD is buggy crap anyway . . . looks like some 'room to improve' with Aquamark and probably Halo also.
The Chronicles of Riddick will work up to fifteen per cent faster than with the old Catalyst 5.5 drivers and ATI did more efficient storage of vertex data and gained some performance that way too.
UP to +15% . . .i think there is a LOT of room for improvement with the Starbreeze Engine - for nVidia especially with the 2.0++ SM.
Doom 3 will work almost twenty per cent faster than with Catalyst 5.5 as ATI made more efficient use of memory.
Who knows? , , , ATI promised some OGl improvement - their current drivers ARE crap.
Even games such as Call of Duty will benefit from this new driver as the driver team managed to increase the game efficiency resulting in close to ten per cent faster performance
Wasn't CoD considered buggy? And we're LESS than +10%
The game that will benefit the most is Lock on: Modern Air combat where you will be able to see an incredible fifty per cent performance increase just by installing a new 5.6 Catalyst driver.
Not so incredible IF the current drivers are buggy or "ATI catalyst AI enables texture compression of the clouds resulting with no visual impact and massive performance impact at the same time."
Generally ~10% EXCEPT with Doom3's OGl [+20% add ati has definitely been LACKING here compared to nVidia - about time!]
So what's the BIG deal about the article? ATI always exaggerates 10% is minor but nice if true . . . . i'd be glad for +5% across the board.
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edited to BOLD points
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