DirectX 10, quad and Radeon: Q1 2009 Posted on 27/11/2008 at 14:24 by Marc
According to Intel itself, 25 to 40% of the processor load in games results from Direct 3D and the graphics driver. DirectX 10 allows the driver to multithread this load, but as we say in our news, only NVIDIA is making the most of this.
When contacted about it, AMD confirmed that this is the case, conceding that their current drivers were not fully optimised for triple and quad cores. This situation is likely to change during the first quarter of 2009 with the new Catalyst drivers.
Better late than never then, but in the meantime only NVIDIA allows you to make the most of this DirectX 10 quad core specificity. We have therefore updated our report (in French) on the Core i7 by replaceing the Radeon HD 4870 X2 with a GeForce GTX 280, so as to better demonstrate what can be got out of the different processors tested.
According to Intel itself, 25 to 40% of the processor load in games results from Direct 3D and the graphics driver. DirectX 10 allows the driver to multithread this load, but as we say in