Yes, Performance from a Catalyst driver to another can change quite a lot:
AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta - HD 7970 CrossFire Gaming Performance
AMD Radeon HD 7900/7800 Series - Catalyst 12.9 Beta vs Catalyst 12.4 WHQL Gaming Performance
AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta - HD 7970 Gaming Performance
@Russian,
Thank you very much for the feedback, I will consider that for next GPU charts update (planned for next GPU gen).
And STALKER was run in DX11.
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Review back online:
Changes:
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Yes wouldn't be a bad idea to drop CoD and StarCraft (already thought about it).
Tessmark has been optimized by AMD but they did it wrong, I contacted them about it because I saw the issue but they never contacted me back on this one. Will drop it to.
Wanted to add BL2 now that I bought it and...
Yes 296.10 for everything before GTX 6xx series as they aren't compatible with any GTX 6xx we had to use 30x.x ones.
301.10 were the first drivers compatible wit the GTX 680 (used for only one card then I used the 301.24).
301.25 were the first ones for the GTX 670. I did also use them for some...
Yes because for exemple you can't use the drivers used for the 660 Ti with the 660 as they aren't supported in those drivers. When cards are supported with the previous drivers I use them.
nVidia told me there were no performanvce improvements made between those two drivers in the exemple...
Hey guys,
(I am the reviewer :p)
So to clear things up:
1. Catalyst 12.4 use.
We did use them to keep results comparable with previous cards we benched with. As they are more than onre or two, spending ~2.5 hours per card to bench them all again with latest drivers is not worth it...
For the upcoming Intel Z77 platform and processors, memory manufacturers will have to update their portfolio in order to provide certified memory that match Intel new specs and performance. Here are the new high end modules from G.SKill - the Trident X - that come with a completely new design...
Hey onethreehill,
just saw your ssd reviews database,
if you want here is an overview of all SSDs we reviewed:
Ocaholic - Storage - Review
Here you can find our SSD Charts that we keep updated with every new SSD we receive:
Ocaholic - SSD Charts
To make your life easier if you want to...
Yeah I am on the way to update the benchmark selection:
I will remove RE5, Far Cry 2 and World in Conflict
and I will add:
Crysis 2
Dragon Age 2
Skyrim
Call of Pripyat
Down of War II
Batman Arkham City
And Alien vs Predator
What do you guys think ?
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