FireDragon
05-31-2005, 09:29 AM
"ATI will soon introduce its Catalyst 5.6 driver and we have the feeling that this might happen on the seventh of June, we might be wrong about the date, it's not yet specific but you never know.
Once you install this new driver 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.
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. Doom 3 will work almost twenty per cent faster than with Catalyst 5.5 as ATI made more efficient use of memory."
Source: The Inquirer
So by the sounds of this ATi will now be faster in Doom3 than Nvidia and that also means Quake 4!!! :woot:
Dragon
Once you install this new driver 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.
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. Doom 3 will work almost twenty per cent faster than with Catalyst 5.5 as ATI made more efficient use of memory."
Source: The Inquirer
So by the sounds of this ATi will now be faster in Doom3 than Nvidia and that also means Quake 4!!! :woot:
Dragon