Hey Radeon users,
I have been doing my usual testing & checking performance on my Fury X & have found out that using this setting is actually sapping more GPU cycles than by not using it.
This setting is a holdover from the ATI days as a means to "enhance" texture filtering performance by applying FP11 coding to FP16 coding (layman's terms--to make bilinear texture filtering appear to be as trilinear texture filtering to keep the appearance of trilinear texture filtering being applied in graphics rendered frames (looks sharp) but is actually bilinear texture filtering being applied at specific places in rendered frames.........IOW's a graphical "cheat" by ATI which Nvidia called ATI out on this back in the day.
What I'm seeing is that w/ this Fiji GPU's capabilities this setting is causing the GPU to not optimize itself (slow down) & lower FPS over allowing the GPU to do full FP16 coding of true trilinear texture filtering (texture filtering setting set to High in AMD driver & surface optimizations set to "Off") most likely due to this old code not being really a focus to optimize anymore and IMHO AMD should just remove it from the driver code but I know that there are plenty of older AMD\ATI GPU's still being used to warrant AMD leaving this coding in the driver stack.
You might check this out if you desire.................
FYI........................
