Quote Originally Posted by tajoh111 View Post
The thing is current drivers for for anything AMD supports everything based on 2900xt and up, which is why its far easier for AMD to get gains since they are all based on the same architecture or r600.

Fermi is completely new but shares drivers that are primarily for g80 based architecture. As a result of this specialization, its harder to make drivers that give fermi based cards a boost while not hurting performances of cards from g80 to g200. Some of the biggest gains from AMD drivers when they decided to abandone driver support for 19xx and older generation and the reasons are obvious.
This is nice manipulation with facts, you know? If you say Fermi is completely new, than you must say Evergreen is completely new architeture, too. AMD did the major changes with RV7x0 generation (memory hub and other stuff), NVIDIA with GF10x (cache and other stuff).

But the truth is, the shaders and other parts which have direct impact on 3D performance are the same till R600/G80. So this talk about "hard to make drivers especially for GF100" is total nonsense.

If they want to make special driver, nobody is holding 'em. It is so easy to name the DLL libraries differently and copy the different ones if GF100 is detected, isn't it?