INFOMATIC

NVIDIA accuses AMD of Catalyst driver

NVIDIA is accusing AMD of carrying out “questionable optimizations” to its Catalyst drivers in order to gain an unfair advantage over GeForce hardware in benchmark testing.

NVIDIA’s Technical Marketing Director Nick Stam explains in a blog post:

Important Benchmarking Issues and Questionable OptimizationsWe are writing this blog post to bring broader attention to some very important image quality findings uncovered recently by top technology Web sites including ComputerBase, PC Games Hardware, Tweak PC, and 3DCenter.org. They all found that changes introduced in AMD’s Catalyst 10.10 default driver settings caused an increase in performance and a decrease in image quality. These changes in AMD’s default settings do not permit a fair apples-to-apples comparison to NVIDIA default driver settings. NVIDIA GPUs provide higher image quality at default driver settings, which means comparative AMD vs. NVIDIA testing methods need to be adjusted to compensate for the image quality differences. 

So what’s going on here? Well, the accusation is that AMD has lowered the image quality of the “Quality” setting to the point that users have to select the “High” setting in the Catalyst AI texture filtering options in order to get an image quality close to that offered by the default setting for NVIDIA’s drivers.

The affect on performance of this change seems to add up to seems to mean a 10% advantage to AMD, which is far from insignificant.

This issue affects Catalyst drivers 10.10 and 10.11 (the last two releases) and the 5800- and 6000-series GPUs.

By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes (zdnet)

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Wesley Snipes is going to jail. For 3 years…!

Blade star Wesley Snipes was convicted of tax evasion a good two years ago now, but has so far managed to successfully dodge being sent to prison. Until now, that is…

It looks like his time sewing mailbags, breaking rocks and being nervous of the showers has finally arrived, thanks to US District Judge Terrell Hodges, who has denied Wesley Snipes a new trial and ordered him to surrender so that he can begin his sentence.

E! reports, “The defendant Snipes had a fair trial,” U.S. District Judge Terrell Hodges wrote in his 17-page ruling. “He has had a full, fair and thorough review of his conviction and sentence by the Court of Appeal; and he has had a full, fair and thorough review of his present claims, during all of which he has remained at liberty.
“The time has come for the judgment to be enforced.”
Translation: the 48-year-old actor needs to report to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons ASAP to begin his 36-month sentence.

Wesley Snipes’ contention was that he didn’t receive a fair trial, with his lawyers claiming that they received two emails from jurors who claimed Snipes was guilty before the trial started. Presumably they were the jurors who had seen such cinematic gems as Drop Zone, The Detonator and Money Train.

Fair or not, Wesley Snipes is heading to chokey for a three stretch. Or whatever it is they might say in his movies. How long will it be before someone challenges him to a game on the basketball court though, eh?

Fiber Optic Dresses Concept !

Here’s the Lumigram fiber optics clothe, this minitop comes with integrated fiber optics that are capable of lighting up. Apart from this, fashion items similar to this such as handbags, decorations, and even fiber optic hair are also available.

They are available at France at a yet undisclosed prices. and may be got popularity for its own well beauty.
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