Quad-core CPUs and Graphics performance

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According to Intel, 25 to 40% of the CPU load in a game is linked to Direct3D and the graphics driver...
Over the course of various tests designed to observe this employment of quad-cores we came to the conclusion that there was one parameter that had a great deal more impact that expected: the graphics card, or rather, its driver.

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AMD has confirmed that the current drivers were not fully optimized for using quad core. This optimization should arrive during the first quarter of 2009 with new Catalyst drivers.

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this would mean that nvidia Gt200 series will be even more owned by the radeon 4850-70 series? :shrug:

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Originally Posted by duploxxx

this would mean that nvidia Gt200 series will be even more owned by the radeon 4850-70 series? :shrug:

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Quite the contrary - it rather means that Nvidia has optimized their drivers to get along with quads better.

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Originally Posted by LOE

cat 8.12 is rumored to be a major release

steam computing
i7 platform support
new games support
maybe they will include quad core support as well

I think we will see a major boost in performance of AMD GPUs, those 24% nvidia gets from quad core optimization sound incredible

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Ahh... I need more reading comprehension. Disregard my previous comment please ;)

It seems HD 4870 got hit by DX 10 harder too in that table, i wonder whether that's limited to those 2 games, or indeed their driver isn't as polished as nVidia's one, and there's still some room for growth in DX 10 for ATi's card.

aren't they both twimtbp titles too?

interesting results, with Quad Cores being out for so long, i had long since assumed optimizations had been made to utilize them... especially from AMD, since they make both quads and gfx :P

this article really is an eye opener.... you'd of thought they would of played this hand with their driver optimisations a long time ago...

lets see what happens...:up:

wonder how this affects 3d benchmarks

free performance is always welcome :up:

But its a shame that it took both vendors 2 years to utilize quad cores... :(

10% performance improvement from a 3x more expensive CPU (E8400 vs Q9650)?
Nice.
:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Hornet331

free performance is always welcome :up:

But its a shame that it took both vendors 2 years to utilize quad cores... :(

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And we still don't know how much more utilisation there is to be had.

wow so amd realized that there are quad cores around wow just wow they are really fast

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Originally Posted by largon

10% performance improvement from a 3x more expensive CPU (E8400 vs Q9650)?
Nice.
:rolleyes:

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People don't get quadcores strictly for gaming purposes.. The extra gaming performance is just icing on the cake.

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Originally Posted by duploxxx

this would mean that nvidia Gt200 series will be even more owned by the radeon 4850-70 series? :shrug:

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how did you make this u.... figure this out? :confused::confused::confused:

To me it looks like AMD still hasn't released any quadcore optimization, while nvidia has. That's all there is to it actually. Soon AMD will have their optimization too so that everyone can be happy.

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Originally Posted by Slay0r

how did you make this u.... figure this out? :confused::confused::confused:

To me it looks like AMD still hasn't released any quadcore optimization, while nvidia has. That's all there is to it actually. Soon AMD will have their optimization too so that everyone can be happy.

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I am happy either they do it or not.
:welcome:

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Originally Posted by Slay0r

how did you make this u.... figure this out? :confused::confused::confused:

To me it looks like AMD still hasn't released any quadcore optimization, while nvidia has. That's all there is to it actually. Soon AMD will have their optimization too so that everyone can be happy.

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thats what hes saying that when amd DO .. do the optimizations that they will "own" nividia's G200 series even more :up:

yay, increased performance for free :p:

i thought ati/amd already optimized their drivers for quadcores as well, as nvidia is doing this for quite some time now. makes me wonder what else in our systems isn't optimized after all.

In other, slightly almost somewhat related news, quads running MS' DX10 software rasterizer run Crysis better than Intel integrated graphics. :rofl:

yeah the tests were run at 800x600 which is exactly the resolution most gtx 280 owners use ;)

what a worthless article..

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Originally Posted by postumus

yeah the tests were run at 800x600 which is exactly the resolution most gtx 280 owners use ;)

what a worthless article..

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somehow, this made me think of larrabee.