Shows how long I haven't been on the ATi site. Thank god they finally changed this.
Cheers
Cameron
There is a-lot of things that are changing with respect to ATI, their hardware and the support that will come with it. AMD was well aware of the issues most ATI users were dealing with and since their reputation is now included with ATI's, you going to be seeing allot of changes.
Nvidia can flood the market all it wants... which is exactly what ATI/AMD wants Nvidia and Intel to do.
When ATI releases its round of hardware which has been designed with AMD engineering, users who are on Nvidia products may start thinking twice about what it is that is being pushed on them and the cost.
If ATI and AMD thought allowing Nvidia (and/or Intel) the opportunity to flood the market ahead of them was going to create a financial loss in the end, they would not have gone that route. After people have spent an absorbent amount of money on Nv products, ATI and AMD will launch products that have gone through more design and testing than anything Nv has to offer and will also support things the Nv platforms current do not.
Conroe is not everything the hype makes it out to be especially when you consider the performance to watt use, AMD products still outperforms Conroe in many respects.
What Intel did was foresee what AMD was going to do over the next year and decided to release to the general public a version of a core that has been in use by other, less public, establishments since around 1999.
Conroe is nothing new to me... it is just a renamed technology that has been adapted for currently available GP (general public) chipset hardware. It does boast advantages over AMD however those advantages have been cleverly designed to mask its disadvantages so they would not be analyzed and will be mostly ignored. Intel went for a platform that will take the most advantage of 3Dmark numbers and other tests. Most people do not understand those tests are very FLAWED and can be manipulated by hardware vendors who know what to change to make the score higher and give the ILLUSION of better overall performance.
3DMark has been a joke and a hardware selling device since the day it was released. It should only be used for a personal benchmark for finding and correcting issues and any comparison to someone elses system should always be looked at with a grain of salt.
If your game is running smooth and without issues, ignore the 3Dmark scores you see because they are ONLY designed to make you want better hardware.
Intels quad core approach differes from AMD's and also has significant disadvantages to it that AMD is going to exploit.
Still, I don
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:08 am