Behind the Mask with Optimization and Catalyst AI
by Derek Wilson on September 26, 2004 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Aquamark 3 Analysis
We wanted to test a benchmark because ATI has stated that they would not optimize for any benchmark specifically. But this doesn't mean that a benchmark wouldn't gain a performance advantage that would be applied to any other 3D game using similar techniques. As we can see from the scores, there is no performance difference in whether or not you use Catalyst AI.
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861 - Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - link
a great tool!dvinnen - Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - link
That's good. Only difference I saw was a little lighting difference on the floor. Even then very slight. Good for an extra 10 frams.gordon151 - Monday, September 27, 2004 - link
They did make some general opengl improvements that helped the 8500 in doom3 and some other opengl games in recent drivers, but thats pretty much it for that class.ksherman - Sunday, September 26, 2004 - link
it too bad all the new driver enhanchments have abandoned the Radeon 8500... I could really use some of the improvements in games... :(KillaKilla - Sunday, September 26, 2004 - link
Here it is: its the third image down. Don't know if the whole .net framework could make this imposible, but I don't see how this could have affect...http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=1931...
KillaKilla - Sunday, September 26, 2004 - link
Would it be posible to implement the old, but very, very effective trick to see difference between AI settings? I'm talking about the thing where you hover your mouse over an image and it changes to the other image. I'll look for a link in a minute, if you don't see what I'm talking about.acemcmac - Sunday, September 26, 2004 - link
my question remains...... can I finally leave Cat 3.8 and MMC 8.7 if I want MMC and multimonitor support simultaneously???coldpower27 - Sunday, September 26, 2004 - link
I am glad ATI, is giving this suite allowing user to choose to use optimized drivers or not and having the ability to disable them as well. Good for ATI, now they are on par with Nvidia in this respect.