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The story was that they used a lower mipmap level (blurrier textures) when the process was named Quake, but used the normal mipmap level (standard textures) when the process was named Quack.

Thank you for explaining. I was so confused at how AMD was improving Quake performance with duck-like monikers.

Well, if it _looks_ like a high-performance texture renderer, and it _walks_ like a high-performance texture renderer...

It's probably been duck typed

shocked quack

If it looks like a benchmark and it quacks like a benchmark… duck?

So the additional performance came with a large bill?