The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[Macadamia]

Are the Fermi numbers in those tests result of bad drivers or are they architecture related?

I don't think you'd screw up something that fundamental such as fillrate with release drivers.

What drivers do optimize are probably shader code and texture formats, perhaps a bit of how games render here and there. Feature tests however should be extremely close to practical values from day 1.

[LiquidReactor]

I don't think you'd screw up something that fundamental such as fillrate with release drivers.

What drivers do optimize are probably shader code and texture formats, perhaps a bit of how games render here and there. Feature tests however should be extremely close to practical values from day 1.

So....is Fermi supposed to be a mediocre gpu yet a great gpgpu?

[Mungri]

So....is Fermi supposed to be a mediocre gpu yet a great gpgpu?

Nope:

[acicula]

Nope:

it does better in tests that involve floating point stuff(this is pure integer stuff)

also cuda 3.0 support seems pretty awesome with unified memory architecture(awesome to program)

edit in general gpgpu application perf is very dependent on the application, meaning there is no fastests gpu for gpgu as each have applications in which they are strong due to the architecture.

[LiquidReactor]

Nope:

That is just one test. I've seen tests where the performance difference is as lopsided but favoring Fermi / GTX 480. If you can't post without bias, don't post.