Adapting to Parallelism: Catalyst 5.12 More Dual Core Friendly?
by Derek Wilson on December 4, 2005 10:45 AM EST- Posted in
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Battlefield 2 Performance
This is one of the games that ATI says will see the biggest benefit from their new driver. Again, remember that the biggest gain will be at CPU limited resolutions. We should hope that in these test the Catalyst 5.12 beta driver running on the dual core system would perform at the top of the list.
Unfortunately, these first two tests (8x6 and 10x7 with no AA) are the only ones that the 5.12 driver running on a dual core system performs where it should.
This is one of the games that ATI says will see the biggest benefit from their new driver. Again, remember that the biggest gain will be at CPU limited resolutions. We should hope that in these test the Catalyst 5.12 beta driver running on the dual core system would perform at the top of the list.
Unfortunately, these first two tests (8x6 and 10x7 with no AA) are the only ones that the 5.12 driver running on a dual core system performs where it should.
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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.