Adapting to Parallelism: Catalyst 5.12 More Dual Core Friendly?
by Derek Wilson on December 4, 2005 10:45 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Day of Defeat: Source Performance
We found Day of Defeat: Source to be the benchmark that sees the most consistent benefit from the 5.12 driver and dual core. As is plain from the graphs, performance on the dual core system under the 5.12 driver is on top in every test.
This could indicate that Day of Defeat is CPU limited all around and so gets a good boost from the more efficient use of resources. Of course, even under the 5.12 driver the game is still very CPU limited at low resolutions.
We found Day of Defeat: Source to be the benchmark that sees the most consistent benefit from the 5.12 driver and dual core. As is plain from the graphs, performance on the dual core system under the 5.12 driver is on top in every test.
This could indicate that Day of Defeat is CPU limited all around and so gets a good boost from the more efficient use of resources. Of course, even under the 5.12 driver the game is still very CPU limited at low resolutions.
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wien - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link
Way to talk for everyone... I care, so there.Jep4444 - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link
not like games these days are CPU bottlenecked, thats why we really only see improvements at 800x600, nVidia doesn't gain much in the higher resolutions eitherporkster - Tuesday, December 6, 2005 - link
Obviously you don't multitask? Like do you run a bittorrent client downlaoding off ADSL2 whilst playing a game, or run a IIS server in the background, or run other apps?The days are gone of having a single task able computer as most users want multitasking due to their better understand and use of their machines.
keitaro - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link
That's odd. I thought they're going to use either the X2 4800, the 4400, or the 3800 CPU for the test... I'm a little surprised that they'd go for the 4600 to benchmark this.johnsonx - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link
what difference does it make? it's a dual-core cpu. for this sort of test, it makes no difference whether a 4600 is most popular to buy or not (which I agree it isn't).Shimmishim - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link
first post!looks promising for ATI.