7970 Driver comparison 11.12-12.2

[Tempered81]

7970 Driver comparison 11.12-12.2 courtesy of Mao from Guru3d forums.

These are the drivers for the 7970 compared.

1. The driver is the 12.2 Preview driver with a modded ini to fit the 7970

2. The driver is the 7970 8.9500.x.x dated Jan 17th

3. The driver is the RC11 7970 driver dated Jan 20th.

4. The driver is the one from AMD website hotfix released 01/09 and dated Jan 4th.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=4230456#post4230456

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Did I miss something, or is 12.2 slower in everything except tessmark (lol)?

 

[Kloreep]

Did I miss something, or is 12.2 slower in everything except tessmark (lol)?

Doesn't look to me like you're missing anything. I guess there was a reason they said not to use 12.2 with 7900s. 🙂

I wonder just how long GCN and VLIW drivers will continue to be separate. Or are unified VLIW+GCN drivers simply never in the cards?

 

[Dark Shroud]

Doesn't look to me like you're missing anything. I guess there was a reason they said not to use 12.2 with 7900s. 🙂

I wonder just how long GCN and VLIW drivers will continue to be separate. Or are unified VLIW+GCN drivers simply never in the cards?

My bet is once the 7970s get an official stable driver it will be added to the standard bundle.

 

[blackened23]

Did I miss something, or is 12.2 slower in everything except tessmark (lol)?

12.2 doesn't even support 7970. It is for 6970 and below only. Soo yeah

There are 3 drivers available for 7970. The cd driver dated 12/14. The AMD web driver dated 1/9.. and another AMD web beta driver dated 1/19. All of them are catalyst 11.12. Guru3d had a hack to make 12.2 work for 7970, but no official CCC 12 has been released for 7970, beta or otherwise.

Also: i need a tl'dr on these results. edit: the 1/19 beta driver is the one to use.....working well for me

 

[Tempered81]

Yeah 1/19 (which is the second 8.921.2) looks like the one with best performance for gaming. 8.9500 if you just wanna do tessmark runs