Adapting to Parallelism: Catalyst 5.12 More Dual Core Friendly?
by Derek Wilson on December 4, 2005 10:45 AM EST- Posted in
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FarCry Performance
FarCry has ended up looking a lot like Day of Defeat. We see that most of the tests are lead by the new driver on a dual core system. The only test that really falls short isn't really a failing. At 1600x1200 with 4xAA all the tests are pretty GPU limited. This game does benefit a little from dual core processors on its own. We can see that in the way the 5.11 dual core test shows a performance increase over the single core test -- without any driver specific optimizations.
FarCry has ended up looking a lot like Day of Defeat. We see that most of the tests are lead by the new driver on a dual core system. The only test that really falls short isn't really a failing. At 1600x1200 with 4xAA all the tests are pretty GPU limited. This game does benefit a little from dual core processors on its own. We can see that in the way the 5.11 dual core test shows a performance increase over the single core test -- without any driver specific optimizations.
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wien - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link
Way to talk for everyone... I care, so there.Jep4444 - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link
not like games these days are CPU bottlenecked, thats why we really only see improvements at 800x600, nVidia doesn't gain much in the higher resolutions eitherporkster - Tuesday, December 6, 2005 - link
Obviously you don't multitask? Like do you run a bittorrent client downlaoding off ADSL2 whilst playing a game, or run a IIS server in the background, or run other apps?The days are gone of having a single task able computer as most users want multitasking due to their better understand and use of their machines.
keitaro - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link
That's odd. I thought they're going to use either the X2 4800, the 4400, or the 3800 CPU for the test... I'm a little surprised that they'd go for the 4600 to benchmark this.johnsonx - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link
what difference does it make? it's a dual-core cpu. for this sort of test, it makes no difference whether a 4600 is most popular to buy or not (which I agree it isn't).Shimmishim - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link
first post!looks promising for ATI.