jennyh
Splendid
Other games did change, the release notes show how much.
Look you have to see the broader picture here. I know men can't think in multi-threading but there is a much larger picture that so many of you are missing here.
All these games are coded on i7's, that's almost 100% certain. They may be tested on phenoms later, but chances are they are coded on an i7 platform. That means that they are all optimised for an i7 platform, right from the get-go.
ATI have limited resources and a lot of driver optimisations to work on. Tbh, it is my belief that they do poorly on crossfire optimisations. It took far too long for 9.8 to appear and fix issues that were months old.
So yes, the i7 has held the crossfire advantage for a while, and it would seem to do so again. It will probably last a while longer but it is mostly down to drivers not superior gaming hardware.
The proof is pretty simple, if the i7 was really so much better it would show on single gpu's not only on crossfire.
There is a *lot* more going on here than meets the eye. It isn't a simple QPI issue like Elmo believes. I dunno enough about that and there might even be some mileage in that argument...but even if so there is still a *lot* more going on than meets the eye.
If you just step back a bit and think about it sensibly you would see that 60fps+ wins for the i7 simply are not possible based on hardware. That is a clear driver issue, and ATI will either fix it or they wont. In my opinion they have more important things to do like get crossfire working with eyefinity instead of optimising the phenom II so it catches back up to the i7's 150 fps in some medium-settings gaming benchmark.
Look you have to see the broader picture here. I know men can't think in multi-threading but there is a much larger picture that so many of you are missing here.
All these games are coded on i7's, that's almost 100% certain. They may be tested on phenoms later, but chances are they are coded on an i7 platform. That means that they are all optimised for an i7 platform, right from the get-go.
ATI have limited resources and a lot of driver optimisations to work on. Tbh, it is my belief that they do poorly on crossfire optimisations. It took far too long for 9.8 to appear and fix issues that were months old.
So yes, the i7 has held the crossfire advantage for a while, and it would seem to do so again. It will probably last a while longer but it is mostly down to drivers not superior gaming hardware.
The proof is pretty simple, if the i7 was really so much better it would show on single gpu's not only on crossfire.
There is a *lot* more going on here than meets the eye. It isn't a simple QPI issue like Elmo believes. I dunno enough about that and there might even be some mileage in that argument...but even if so there is still a *lot* more going on than meets the eye.
If you just step back a bit and think about it sensibly you would see that 60fps+ wins for the i7 simply are not possible based on hardware. That is a clear driver issue, and ATI will either fix it or they wont. In my opinion they have more important things to do like get crossfire working with eyefinity instead of optimising the phenom II so it catches back up to the i7's 150 fps in some medium-settings gaming benchmark.