Posted on Thursday, May 20 2010 @ 5:22 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
There's a common belief amongst early adopters of new hardware, especially
graphics cards, that performance will improve over time thanks to continuous
driver updates. It's certainly a belief that manufacturers have tried to
uphold themselves by constantly claiming performance improvements in their
latest drivers. In many cases, their claims are correct since SLI and
CrossfireX technologies are heavily reliant on software implementations and
drivers undergo optimisations to take full potential of the hardware. Even
with single card configurations, both Nvidia and ATI often claim major
boosts of more than 10%, which is a figure that can often differentiate two
separate cards (GTX295 vs HD5870). If those numbers are correct, it could
essentially mean that relative performance differences between cards will
vary over time and this has some interesting implications.
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