A look at Catalyst AI

[Gajdycz]

wha?????

http://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?dType=review&dId=703

 

[ailevation]

So I guess the new 4.10's will include a new feature "Catalyst AI"

When we enabled the higher image quality options we can see that the 4.10 drivers are offering much more in the way of performance gains. The AI - Low mode is giving as much as a 37% gain over the 4.9's, whilst AI - High gains as much as 41.5%. The performance gains offered here are tantamount to a resolution increase being afforded with these settings.

In this instance even disabling AI entirely is gives a higher performance under 4.10 as the 4.9 drivers with the default optimisations - this would either suggest that some optimisations have been missed and aren't disabled, or ATI have made some generic gains that allows them to exceed their prior performance even without generic texture optimisations.

http://www.beyond3d.com/misc/catai/

 

[ailevation]

:dozey: What Teh ****korz? You took over my thread! I created this mo ****a!

 

[GuNzABlaZiN]

Any dates on when this is coming out?

 

[ailevation]

Next month, or whenever the 4.10's come out.

 

[Nex321]

4.10? what about 5.0?

 

[ailevation]

After 4.12? Haven't you noticed that ATi releases new drivers every month?

 

[Nex321]

hmm its now at 4.9 so I thought it would be 5.0, isn't that correct?

 

[Asus]

4 stands for the year. 10 stands for the month.
That's how ATI numbers the drivers.

 

[Nex321]

oh lol, didn't know that.

 

[Gajdycz]

um, so what does this mean?

 

[ailevation]

um, so what does this mean?

Spam... doesn't mean shit, except the fact that drivers are released everyone month.

 

[Gajdycz]

no i mean about the ai part, i know it increases perfomance, but how, and at whta cost

 

[Asus]

no i mean about the ai part, i know it increases perfomance, but how, and at whta cost

Didn't you make it to the end of the article you linked to? That's what the review was supposed to go over.
Conclusion
Conclusion (scroll down)

 

[Narcolepsy]

This actually sounds too good to be true! It makes me wonder why no one's ever done it before.

 

[ailevation]

:dozey: Wasn't it like the thing where it would just switch between Bilinear and Trillinear filtering? But, there's no image quality loss, because you cannot tell.

 

[Ecthe|ioN]

w000t ?? cool. Party at my house next month then
I hope it's true as much of the promises regarding drivers tend to be bullpoop. (bullpup, if that's your pleasure)

 

[blahblahblah]

I love free performance increases. I hope they start supporting more and more titles.

Does anybody know if this works only for the R4XX, or does it include the R3XX as well?

 

[Asus]

I thought it'd post in this thread rather than making a new one.
Anandtech reviews ATI's AI
Very good things from ATI. It would be nice if Nvidia did this.

 

[oldagerocker]

this looks really good more fps in doom3 is always good
but no improvement in Half-life 2

 

[The Terminator]

Catalyst AI
Temporal AA
New CCC

ATI is really stepping up with its drivers. Bravo ATI, Bravo.

 

[Gorgon]

4.91:
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/wxp-w2k-psychotoxic-hotfix-018185E.exe

4.9: http://www.teamradeon.com/

 

[blahblahblah]

ATI is really innovating with their drivers. Its refreshing for them to take a subject like drivers optimization and spin it into a positive. I won't mind a free performance boost with as long as image quality doesn't decrease.

 

[ailevation]

4.91:
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/wxp-w2k-psychotoxic-hotfix-018185E.exe

4.9: http://www.teamradeon.com/

what's with those 4.91's? That is an official release right?