ATI Optimizes Catalyst 8.8 to be FurMark-Proof!
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Here is an incredible news to start the day: Expreview has found that ATI’s Catalyst 8.8 have been optimized to detect FurMark and downclock the frequencies of a Radeon HD 4850/4870 to avoid to burn the GPU. |
So if you have a Radeon HD 4850 or Radeon HD 4870, just rename FurMark.exe in something.exe and you will see the difference!
Expreview has done the test with Quake Wars: Emeny Territory and has renamed etqw.exe to FurMark.exe and saw performance drop from 141.3FPS to 93.7FPS!
I have not a Radeon HD 4000 series but I think that I’m going to buy a Radeon HD 4850 today!
It’s a pain to develop a benchmark to make it running properly on most graphics hardwares and now I have to include in FurMark a Catalyst anit-cheat???? Thanks AMD/ATI….
Why AMD doesn’t contact me directly to find out the problem???
Update
- Les Radeon efficaces dans FurMark au point dépasser les tolérences? @ TT-Hardware
- AMD ralentit le fonctionnement de ses cartes pour FurMark @ PC INpact
- Catalyst 8.8 – FurMark künstlich verlangsamt
- FurMark-testi tuottaa lämpöongelmia AMD:lle?
- AMD reduce supuestamente el rendimiento en FurMark
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Yes, i have one…
This is really true!
[ SCORE: 2094 o3Marks ]
Renaming…
[ SCORE: 4194 o3Marks ]
Just 50% of performance!
Tested on a MSI HD 4870 OC 512/256 780/1000
You can disable Catalyst A.I for the same result.
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