ATI, Nvidia cards faster on P4 than Athlon
Firms optimising for workstations
By Fuad Abazovic, 16/04/2002 09:54:35 BST
http://www.theinquirer.net/16040206.htm
WE HAVE RECENTLY benchmarked some professional OpenGl cards, such as the FireGL 8800 card from ATI and the Quadro4 900 and 750, and we did that on Epox board 8KHA+ board with KT266A chipset.
We preferred to use this board in all our previous benchmarketing but we got some extraordinarily strange and non-logical results with some of the cards, especially with Spec Viewperf 6.12 test.
Talking to both ATI and Nvidia over the last few day about these results, I was told that if the cards were used with the Intel platform, the results were very different than using an AMD chip.
There is still room for performance improvement using the FireGL drivers and we expect that later upgrades will include such optimisations.
The reason seems to be that as Intel currently holds about 80 per cent of the workstation market, both Nvidia and ATI optimise their drivers in its favour, and have put AMD work on the back burner, for the high end.
Cheyenne supercomputer sold to the highest bidder for $480,000
A decade later: How Microsoft flushed $7.6 billion down the drain when it bought Nokia
