Nvidia and ATI Dual Core Drivers.

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Nobi125

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I read a while back that in the recent Nvidia drivers they have included dual core cpu support and that it had provided a nice boost in performance in some games that had support for it.

Now, I'm probably going to be getting an x1800xt since their cheap and was wondering if ATI had included similar features into their drivers and whether they provided much of a boost.

This isn't a flamewar, I don't want opinions, just facts and observations made by people who have these cards.

Bottom line: Does the Dual Core Driver support for ATI help as much as Nvidia's implementation?
 
ATI and Nvidia have support built into their drivers that allow a performance boost from Dual Core Processors
 
Does anyone have any figures demonstrating the boost the ATI cards get from dual cores?
 
nobi125 said:
Does anyone have any figures demonstrating the boost the ATI cards get from dual cores?
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might aswell ask in this thread...can someone also show the boost from nvidia dual core drivers?
 
Mayhs said:
might aswell ask in this thread...can someone also show the boost from nvidia dual core drivers?
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Some hardware website did a write about and had graphs and what not showing the boost in some games that the Nvidia cards got with dual core.

I haven't had an ATI card in a while, so I wasn't really paying attention to articles about ATI drivers. I'm sure there's a write up about it somewhere, I just never noticed it.
 
nobi125 said:
Some hardware website did a write about and had graphs and what not showing the boost in some games that the Nvidia cards got with dual core.

I haven't had an ATI card in a while, so I wasn't really paying attention to articles about ATI drivers. I'm sure there's a write up about it somewhere, I just never noticed it.
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me neither ive heard people get a good boost in performance...not substantial but good...which is 'good' enough for me :p
 
The performance boost isn't what I call nice, more along the lines of "negligible." The only games supporting multithreading right now are Quake 4 and Call of Duty 2, and Quake 4 is the only one of those two that even benefits from it in any measureable amount.

The truth is, the driver ops actually complicate things..
http://www.elitebastards.com/page.php?pageid=13241

Looks like the only true benefit you'll be getting is if you're an avid Quake 4 player that uses CPU limited resolutions.
 
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