Telugu engineer at ATI develops miracle OpenGL hack

Now kicks Nvidian butt in Doom 3

By Fuad Abazovic: Friday 14 October 2005, 18:18
FOR THE first time in recent history ATI managed to kick Nvidia's butt in Doom 3.

It's an interesting story, but ATI engineers say they managed to find a way to use the memory better and get almost 30 percent of increase in OpenGL games.

Raja Koduri, one of the key engineers at ATI, and his team working on programmable memory controllers developed a little tweak that can result in a significant performance increase.

The tweak in driver software will help a sixteen-pipeline ATI card to outperform its twenty-four-pipe rivals that can render thirty two pixels without Z passes. Scary huh?

Our friends at Hexus managed to prove the difference. You can check their findings here

You will get noticeable performance increase in all OpenGL games and, compared with each and every driver, it will boost your performance. This driver will get you faster performance at 1600x1200 4X FSAA and 8 Aniso than Geforce 7800 GTX and this is the recommended resolution for this card.

This feature will be part of upcoming Catalyst 5.11 drivers as it takes time to validate and test all of the features and it will get it to the general public. We don’t know how this hack affects slower cards but be aware that the hack is just about two days old.

Courtesy: The Inquirer