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  • Cat 6.8 released

    Performance Improvement

    As with most Catalyst® releases, performance has increased in various situations.

    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. These include:

    * 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%

    Optimizations made to ATI's graphics memory manager have led to significant gains in DirectX applications that make heavy use of graphics memory on 256MB ATI graphics cards:

    * 3DMark06 performance improves as much as 22% on single ATI Radeon® X1000 series cards with 256MB of graphics memory at 1280x1024 and higher when anti-aliasing is enabled. The largest gains are found on the ATI Radeon® X1800 series and ATI Radeon® X1900 series of products
    * Call of Duty 2 performance improves as much as 30% on single ATI Radeon® X550 cards or higher with 256MB of video memory at 1280x1024 and higher when anti-aliasing enabled. The largest gains are found on the ATI Radeon® X1800 series and ATI Radeon® X1900 series of products
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    Downloading

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    • #3
      doing download now. these are some pretty lofty performance boost claims. if true I wonder if it relates to IQ sharing from amd...
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      • #4
        A quick Prey benchmark (HardwareOC bench)
        Settings are 1280x1024 at highest quality (grafic boost disabled) Demo 1
        Cat 6.5 = 24.6 fps
        Cat 6.8 = 42.8 fps

        And thats on an Intel system
        ASUS P5B-E ;2GB G.Skill DDR2 Ram; C2D6420;lub 3D X1950pro ;SoundBlaster X-Fi;WinXP

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