AMD Catalyst 13.6 BETA 2

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http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/amdcatalyst13-6WINBetaDriver.aspx


Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 13.6 Beta2 for Windows®:

Improves performance in PCMark 7 and PCMark 8 on the new AMD A10, A8, A6, and A4 Series APUs for desktop and mobile platforms.
Resolves HDMI Audio drop-out issues on the AMD Radeon HD Series of products.


Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 13.6 Beta for Windows®:

Product support for the new AMD A10, A8, A6, and A4 Series APUs on desktop and mobile platforms.
AMD Enduro technology enhancement:
Reduces power consumption when running Windows 8 Metro applications – detects when Metro applications have idled and moves them to the integrated graphics component.
AMD Catalyst Control Center now shows the hardware and software Information pages for AMD discrete GPUs when paired with Intel integrated graphics.
Includes AMD GPU & AMD APU OpenCL 1.2 acceleration in Adobe Premiere PRO CC.
Support for AMD Wireless Display for Windows 8 and future Windows releases:
Supported on AMD Elite A-Series APUs with select Broadcomm and Atheros Wireless adapters.
AMD Wireless Display Technology provides the ability to wirelessly display local screen content onto a remote screen in real time. Compliant receiver/TV required.
Resolved issues:
Resolves HDMI Audio drop-out issues on the AMD Radeon HD Series products.
Resolves issues with the AMD Catalyst Control Center showing Audio Display messages at incorrect times.

 

[chimaxi83]

Oh man, good thing these improve performance in PCMark. Totally what we needed.

 

[24601]

Oh man, good thing these improve performance in PCMark. Totally what we needed.

I'm going to guess they make sure to prefetch all of PCMark into RAM during the benchmark or something hilarious like that.

 

[taq8ojh]

Oh man, good thing these improve performance in PCMark. Totally what we needed.

I would theorize it's some change that's the most visible in this benchmark, but not necessarily made for this purpose. There are things going on below surface you know.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Wonder if by chance these will fix the random gpu usage dips i get in BF3?

Despite the fact my 7850 struggles at 1200p,my usage in game can dip as low as 88% sometimes almost like its cpu limited which is new since i installed 13.3.

 

[jackstar7]

Not seeing much in the log there that's different from 13.6 beta 1.

May just wait it out for the latency fixing drivers in the next 2 mos.

 

[psolord]

Thanks for the news. Works great.

 

[Stuka87]

Wonder if by chance these will fix the random gpu usage dips i get in BF3?

Despite the fact my 7850 struggles at 1200p,my usage in game can dip as low as 88% sometimes almost like its cpu limited which is new since i installed 13.3.

Do you track your CPU usage? BF3 will use 95% of a 4.5GHz 2500K at times.