ATI Driver Increases on Older Hardware

[Paratus]

I recently decided to update my drivers for my rig - (P4 3.2E (Presshot at stock), Asus P4P800 E Mobo 1GB Corsair 2-2-2-5 Mem, Asus 9600XT Stock (500/600)) after reading about some of the new performance increases from later drivers. As it turned out I hadn't updated them since Cats 4.11. (Guess I was lazy)


So without further ado here's what I found

3DM05
..............................Cat 4.11..........Cat5.11..........Cat5.13
9600XT (500/600)....1545...............2086...............2122
9600XT (500/600)....%100..............%135..............%137

9600XT(526/648).....1619...............2184...............2240
9600XT(526/648).....%100..............%135..............%138

*UPDATE*
3DM03
9600XT(526/648).....4230...............4557...............4578
9600XT(526/648).....%100..............%107..............%108

Not a bad increase from 1 year to the next ~35% and then another ~2-3% between monthly updates. It at least gives my 9600XT a little more life.

Now I need to see how that translates into game play!



*UPDATE*
Not as much on 3DM03 but I wasn't really expecting much

 

[FrustratedUser]

Ooops! I am still running a 9700Pro with old drivers and DirectX 9.0b --- yeah you guessed it, no gaming done in quite a while.

 

[Paratus]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Ooops! I am still running a 9700Pro with old drivers and DirectX 9.0b --- yeah you guessed it, no gaming done in quite a while.

Well update em and you can!

 

[Knowname]

yeah... I'm not much of a gamer either, but for some reason it's really important to me to have the best performance I can get -_-. I got an AIW x800xt, stuck with stock drivers as it came out really late in the x800's life and new drivers always focused on the new h/w.... or so I thought. So now I'm very excited to d/l the new drivers when I get home! Great thread!:thumbsup:

 

[Fern]

Thanks Paratus.

I don't recall gfx driver improvements like that since quite a while. Anyway, seems a few years back in the "Ti" days.

I'll take my dad (using a 9600p) the new cat 5.13 and install for him on Christmas (another little Christmas present )

Fern

 

[Paratus]

No problem - I'm running 3DM03 to see what I get there but I'm not expecting as much.

 

[Ackmed]

Its more than just 3dmark, Farcry and others get a huge boost.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/857/a..._2005_the_ultimate_analysis/index.html

 

[Paratus]

Originally posted by: Ackmed
Its more than just 3dmark, Farcry and others get a huge boost.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/857/a..._2005_the_ultimate_analysis/index.html

Ya I saw that. It's one of the things that made me download the 5.13s. It looks like I get a little boost from having a p4 HT cpu (5.11->5.13 numbers) although not as much as the X2 folks obviously.

 

[Paratus]

bump for 3DM03 scores

 

[SickBeast]

This thread is more informative than the recent AT review.

 

[Paratus]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
This thread is more informative than the recent AT review.

I know!

While most ATs' reveiws are good. The GPU reviews, recently, seem like they are just going through the motions. Maybe we should PM a couple of the reviewers with improvments we'd like to see.


Anyhow I'm off to work in 20 minutes. Later

 

[Noid]

I've been postiing my results in almost every ATi driver release for my r9700pro.

Your results are not any different than what I posted.
I guess no one reads anymore.

Now I have a x850xt.
So, no longer 'old' hardware... well not real old anyway.

 

[Pete]

Pretty funny that your 9600XT scores almost as high as my 9800P in both 3DM03 and 3DM05. My CPU and RAM (XP 2400+ Tbred, 1GB PC2100) are holding me back immensely. I get 2500 in 3DM05, 5400 in 3DM03, and just 11300 in 3DM01SE. My CSS Stress Test scores are pretty pathetic, too.

Just goes to show you that a decent CPU and memory bandwidth are important, too, which makes the new console CPUs so interesting.

 

[BFG10K]

I have yet to complete my tests of the 5.13 drivers but so far it appears that single core systems get no performance gain from them in games.

 

[Munky]

I havent tested any games, but I did get a 200 point increase in 3dmark05, and that's on a single core cpu.

cat 5.12: 7002 (or might have been the 5.11's, I dont remember...)
cat 5.13: 7216