Intervista a John Byrne (AMD) - [NEWS]

[Chicco85]

DriverHeaven ha intervistato Jonh Byrne, vice presidente della sezione GPU e Chipset di AMD. I temi dell'intervista sono molti e decisamente interessanti.

Buona lettura.

[Chicco85]

Questo IMHO è uno dei passaggi più interessanti:

"Driver Heaven: When CrossFire was originally announced there was much made of the fact that all games should be supported and no profiles were needed. This proved not to be the case and to this day new games and demo's are released which don't have CrossFire support and often by the time a driver is released the majority of enthusiasts will have finished their game. What are AMD doing to resolve this situation?

John: In terms of OS support for CrossFire, we have been very faithful to our users by delivering full support via WHQL’d monthly Catalyst drivers. We also took some very significant steps recently to greatly improve scaling with the latest DirectX10 games. Initially our DirectX 10 driver was based on stability and we are very happy with what we have delivered in this area. Now that we have a fairly large sample of DirectX 10 titles to work with, we’ve taken the opportunity to look at performance gains across the board. A great example is our implementation of “DirectX 10 compatible mode AFR” in Catalyst 7.10. We are seeing excellent scaling all around with Catalyst 7.10 based on these improvements and this is without the need for user level profiles."