Comments on: Catalyst 9.3: ATI now loves Folding@Home

By: Theo

Theo — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:48:32 +0000

Well, both Ian and Terry were really optimistic… I have to say I did note an improvement in scores… 100 points a day more…

By: Jens (Planet 3DNow!)

Jens (Planet 3DNow!) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:46:26 +0000

Well, Ian is sometimes too enthusiastic.

Here is the statement from Matt Houston:

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=9053&p=89439&sid=c4c985e9dfb73d8c1393480be6bbf916#p89439

“There will be an updated core needed that is still in beta testing to see increases. There were changes to CAL that improve our latency in scheduling the hardware from the CPU when some optional flags are enabled. Once that is happy in the wild, we will work on some other ease of use improvements, a…”

By: Theo Valich

Theo Valich — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:22:58 +0000

Well, ATI is claiming to… I would go and check what happened if there wasn’t for the fact that I am workking 15-18 hours a day on preparations for the launch…

I’ve installed Catalyst 9.3 – will let everybody know if that blogpost from Ian McNaughton of AMD fame was in the wrong…

http://blogs.amd.com/play/2009/03/18/ati-catalyst-93-everything-you-want-to-know/

By: Jens

Jens — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:34:33 +0000

Catalyst 9.3 won’t improve your Folding scores.

The next GPU Client which will bring improvements is still in beta!