With current drivers, Nvidia will score 5000 points with the 6800 Ultra while the X800XT PR will score only 4500 with 4.9 drivers. With the new ATI driver codenamed 8.07, ATI score will jump to an incredible 5800. All these scores are on a 3.4GHz Pentium 4 machine. The ATI driver will be introduced as the Catalyst 4.10 and we learned it should get its WHQL very soon.
Metro disse:Nemesis11:
Trocaste a Nvidia pela ATI
The Catalyst 4.9 driver is out and ATI still has WHQL, meaning that its driver is fine from Microsoft WHQL test point of view. When we talked with Microsoft we learned that there is a set of tests that you can run in order to see if your driver is WHQL material or not. (...)
Microsoft can confirm this said us before that all of their nine drivers introduced in 2004 are WHQL and all of their drivers will remain WHQL certified.
Nvidia facts are not so bright, they had four partially WHQL while their latest publicly available 61.77 is not WHQL at all.
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they are failing each and part of WHQL test. They are failing in all fourteen tests including, D3Dlines, Multisampling, Non power 2 conditional RenderTarget, Pixel Shader Precision, Pixel Shader Ver. 1.1, Pixel Shader Ver. 1.2, Pixel Shader Ver. 1.3, Pixel Shader Ver. 1.4, Pixel Shader Ver. 2.0, Point Sprites, Texture address, Texture stage, Update surface and YUV Bit test.
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Nvidia promised us WHQL drivers a few times already in the last few months since the launch but never released anything yet. What's going on Nvidia?
MJRL disse: