X800 Catalyst comparision

[Duke]

..looking at performance + IQ from Cat 4.05 to 6.01 on the X800 @ Anandtech.

e.g. with Farcry

By enabling AA/AF, however, we see an entirely different story. With the 5.03 drivers, ATI posted a very impressive 30% performance improvement, moving the game from the realm of being fairly playable with these settings to extremely playable. ATI cites this as being due to efficiency improvements in vertex processing on the R420, which impacted this game heavily. While we can’t see this change without AA/AF, it’s very obvious here with it.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2701

Looks like the main game engines (HL2/Doom/Crytek) have several tweaks.. as does 3DMark. Interesting..

 

[benjo]

I've read it, but i still dont really understand. I thought that the 6's were more for the top end cards. Also i'm on 6.2's so does that mean that i'm losing performance?