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SKYMTL, can you please comment???

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Hi SKYMTL and fellow members,

I woud really appreciate SKYMTL, and everybody else to comment on this news I came across...on TECHARP.

Is this an April fool's day thing?

ATI To Fix Poor Tessellation Performance
Tech ARP - ATI To Fix Poor Tessellation Performance

quote:
Tech ARP : Haha... But let's be honest - the GeForce GTX 480 is more than just a little faster than the Radeon HD 5870. It's twice as fast at tessellation, and that's supposed to be ATI's pet feature!
ATI : You believe the drivel they write in their PR slides? Then you must be one of those Sarah Palin tea party nutcases. Doesn't matter anyway. It's only temporary.
Tech ARP : Why temporary? You can't be planning to launch a new series of graphics cards so soon.
ATI : No, but we will be fixing the tessellation performance real soon. You can count on a 3x increase in performance in the next Catalyst driver.
Tech ARP : How is that possible?
ATI : Simple. To reduce power and temperature, we turned off most of the tessellators in the Radeons. Why turn them all on when there are no games using tessellation? Remember - ATI loves polar bears. We will just fire them up in the next version of the Catalyst driver.
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Humm...could it even be possible that ATI HAD that kind of card up it`s sleeve?
Seems a little too good to be true. How COULD a driver re-enable some de-activated functions of the cards? It would be something that an "eventual" BIOS flash COULD do if possible...
 
no dude, there's been a few sources on the net stating that ATI/AMD cards oddly have had some features disabled across their line up. It was guessed via BIOS dumps that they were indeed extra tessel units, possibly made as a buffer in case of poor silicon yields or for future use such as this. A few places stated that driver inefficiencies might have led ATI/AMD to keep the units off for the time being, indeed to prevent overheating and etc.

The units could possibly be switched on via drivers if they're software activated.. if ATI/AMD have sorted out driver issues, then why not activate them?
 
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Please note that I'm the one that made the Aprils fool's assumption (to be on the safe side). The article came out before April 1st.

SKYMTL or other HWC admin can scrap the topic if that's just a tactic from TECHARP to get traffic on their site (another assumption)
We're talking about the Cypress architecture here. Is there anything disabled in the Cypress core that we know about?
 
wait youre implying that tha 5xxx line has disabled features? hmmm.....time for some googling, pre april
 
Definitely interesting if its true. Unfortunately I don't think you'll get a response from Skymtl before Monday, as I believe he is away currently for the long weekend.
 
hmmmmmmmmmm...altough its rumoured the next cards from ati will be of a mixed kind, some old tried and true components with some new ones....and the 'fiasco' by tmsc or however you spell it is to blame(dont buy it but who knows)
 
Of course it's an April Fools joke.

The whole chat log is a riddled with jokes.
 
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