ATI's Catalyst 3.8 Drivers: ATI Sanctioned Overclocking
by Derek Wilson on October 8, 2003 3:02 PM EST- Posted in
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Aquamark3 Performance
The first time through, we ran this benchmark with overdrive off just to see what happened. Oddly enough, we got the exact same score. In case you're wondering why that’s odd, a frame rate identical to 3 significant digits is kind of a cool thing to happen twice (yes we know, we’ve been doing this for too long). Of course that does indicate that we see no performance gain out of the 3.8 drivers without overdrive. Now let’s see what happens when we turn on the juice:
Looking at the graph shows us we get about 1.3 fps with the overdrive enabled. Not too shabby.
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Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - link
#31 was a reply to # 28.Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - link
are you telling me that your going to play HL2 , in DX8 at 640x800 on your Fx ? to get decent framerates ?Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - link
Nice of you to warn us ahead of time #8.It does take one to know one.
So in your esteemed opinion, what are all the current GF FX card owners to do?
Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - link
i am a little disappointed with the overdrive feature as well...i was all exicted too about the possibilities...and certainly expecting more than just a 1.5fps difference :(Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - link
#26 said: ""TombRaider AOD , the only DX9 game benchmarked is 3 1/2 times faster than Nvidia.ATI 42 fps , Nvidia 12 fps.
WoooW.
Imagine HL2.""
Do0d, TRAOD has nothing to do with HL2. Also, NV is playable at lower resolutions than 16x12. And any card will fly with PS2.0 off...
Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - link
...I'm honestly struggling to work out why CM hyped these up as the best Catalysts ever. We knew these weren't going to be performance drivers, but the new features are gimmicky (overdrive/smartshader) or not as good as they should be (game profiles, but you have to manually switch them, bah!). Oh well, some bug fixes are at least nice.A somewhat disappointed 9800 Pro'er.
Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - link
TombRaider AOD , the only DX9 game benchmarked is 3 1/2 times faster than Nvidia.ATI 42 fps , Nvidia 12 fps.
WoooW.
Imagine HL2.
I'm impressed, If Cat 3.8 bring more stability, that should be good enough for ATI owners.
a Gforce2 mx owner.
AgaBooga - Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - link
#24, ATI would have had to implement special temperature measuring devices. I wonder how the bios flashing will respond to this...Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - link
sucks like 0.1% of gamers or market have the 9800TX why not do it with 9700pro or 9800projust a though ...............
Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - link
#20,You got your roman numerals backwards.
VIII is 8
IX is 9
X is 10
XI is 11
XII is 12
XIII is 13
XIV is 14 and so on