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AMD/ATI Catalyst 8.8 downclocks GPU on detecting FurMark

zdnet.com » 2008 » August » 27th » AMD/ATI Catalyst 8.8 downclocks GPU on detecting FurMark

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Interesting piece over on Geeks3D - it seems that the latest Catalyst 8.8 drivers released a few days ago by AMD have a built-in feature that detects when the user has the FurMark OpenGL benchmark running and downclocks the GPU on the Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4870 to keep the temperature down … Continue Reading »

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