Always the optimist, to think there's some untapped potential in the 2xxx
and 3xxx cards. :-)

The 2xxx and 3xxx cards are fundamentally slow because
1) they lack a hardware AA resolver and
2) their raw fillrate [~ 24 Gtexel/sec] is significantly less than the
competing 8800 designs [~ 37 Gtexel/sec for GTX].

In fact, the drivers are quite efficient. Look he
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3151&p=9
Year's worth of driver optimizations and the X1950XTX is now pulling
almost twice the framerate of the 7950GT in Bioshock, Crysis and UT3, and
this is in Vista.

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"Mike Ray" wrote in message
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It might be a good idea for ATI to spend some time on drivers! They might
get a real boost (from just better software) from 2xxx and 3xxx cards
already being sold. Seems the hardware is always ahead of drivers.

Bottom Line - If ATI was known for great stable drivers they would not
need the latest, greatest hardware.