mdk777 wrote:No conspiracy, just a lack of effort in support.I strongly recommend anyone who wants to complain about ATI performance vs. NVidia performance and say hardware doesn't cause anything to read the post below:
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You can't call conspiracy if you haven't first read that post.
The conclusion to the thread you reference is:
Here is clearly admits that the client was for all intents and purpose depreciated a long time ago. It just was never made official.As has been explained ad infinitum in this thread and others, our focus is now on the next generation GPU3 client and OpenMM core. The programming language and model used by the old ATI code have been made largely obsolete by the introduction of OpenCL, so we're focusing our efforts there, rather than trying to revamp an older code.
Yes, this is all several year old news, but continuing to claim it didn't happen falls into the category of history revision.
Lack of effort? How is Stanford, according to your own words, supposed to make an obsolete code base work better for ATI clients? How is Stanford slacking off when Stanford has to wait for ATI to finish the OpenCL code?
Lack of progress, or halting development, or changing developmental focus is not the same as deprecating the client, and therefore not revisionist. Revisionism takes place when one tries to change the understood facts about a situation, and no one is trying to change the facts here but you. Again, as you said, that's an old thread, with long understood information, but here you are trying to draw new conclusions. No one here has ever claimed that post didn't happen. No one deleted the post. No one edited the post. And for an old post, it still gets referenced quite often to quiet the fanboys.
Let's look at an actual example. The v6.29 SMP was deprecated when v6.30 SMP was released. ATI GPU is much different. The ATI client is still active with no replacement yet, so how can it be considered deprecated? So do you want everyone with an ATI card to just turn it off because the client code is considered obsolete? Ya, sure, let's just turn off 600 TFlops of production because of the lack of progress in developing a replacement. Ya, sure, the ATI client just sucks too badly. Let's all shut them off in protest.