Catalyst 6.8 Treibervergleich
Seite 1: Einleitung
Ab sofort steht der Catalyst 6.8 zum Download bereit. Unter anderem soll Call of Duty 2 sowie Doom3 von dem Treiber profitieren. Schauen wir uns das einmal näher an.
Zuerst die Verbesserungen im Detail:
Highlights of the Windows Catalyst 6.8 release include:
Performance improvements:
OpenGL – Improved shader compiler and transform engine optimizations have led to many significant performance gains in OpenGL applications across the entire Radeon X1000 Series of products:
· Doom 3 performance improves as much as 6.5%
· Quake 4 (v1.2 or higher) performance improves as much as 18%
· Chronicles of Riddick performance improves as much as 20%. Average improvements of 5-10% are commonly seen.
· Prey performance improves as much as 16%.
Direct3D – Optimizations made to ATI’s graphics memory manager have led to significant gains in applications that make heavy use of graphics memory on 256MB ATI graphics cards:
· 3DMark06 performance improves as much as 22% on the Radeon X1000 Series of products in single card configurations with 256MB of graphics memory at 1280x1024 and anti-aliasing enabled. The largest gains are found on the ATI Radeon X1800 Series and Radeon X1900 Series of products.
· Call of Duty 2 performance improves as much as 30% on single Radeon X550 cards or higher with 256MB of video memory at 1280x1024 and anti-aliasing enabled. The largest gains are found on the ATI Radeon X1800 Series and Radeon X1900 Series of products.
Ab zu den Benchmarks..