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Catalyst 11.4 early preview

Skurge

Skurge

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I haven't seen a thread about these. So here goes.

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Catalyst114earlypreview.aspx

This are the official notes

AMD Catalyst™ 11.4 early preview – “Mjölnir I”

AMD Catalyst™ Driver 11.4 early Preview Features:
· Delivers performance enhancements for the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 Series & Windows 7.
· Includes enhancements to the AMD Catalyst Control Center™
o New task based Display Management controls
§ Simplifies the configuration of displays and display settings
o New Eyefinity setup group
§ Setting up an Eyefinity group has never been easier
o New branding (based on system configuration)
§ AMD based platform – AMD VISION Engine Control Center
§ Discrete AMD GPU with Intel CPU – AMD Catalyst Control Center™
o AMD Catalyst update notification (found within the Information Center)
§ Please note this functionality is not yet enabled, but will be in a future AMD Catalyst release
§ This feature will be used to notify users that new AMD Catalyst software packages are available

· Fixed cases where Dragon Age 2 would hang in DirectX11 on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products.
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I also found this, http://www.legitreviews.com/news/10268/

I havnt seen any benchmarks with these drivers. So post your experiences.
 
Dragon age 2 has stopped hanging, It would sometimes just hang out of no where for 5-6 seconds. This stopped it.
 
legit reviews said:
  • Up to 70% performance improvement in Civilization V
  • Up to 49% performance improvement in Call of Duty: Black Ops
  • Up to 23% performance improvement in F1 2010
  • Up to 21% performance improvement in Wolfenstein MP
  • Up to 15% performance improvement in Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X
  • Up to 17% performance improvement in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
  • Up to 28% performance improvement in Metro2033
  • Up to 33% performance improvement in Left 4 Dead 2
  • Up to 26% performance improvement in FarCry 2
  • Up to 15% performance improvement in Crysis Warhead
  • Up to 50% performance improvement in Unigine Heaven
  • Up to 22% performance improvement in Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Up to 19% performance improvement in Aliens vs. Predator
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What in the holy ethereal temple of the revered and merciful Charlie Sheen and his band of 10/10 groupies?




Is this real life?
 
-Slacker- said:
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What in the holy ethereal temple of the revered and merciful Charlie Sheen and his band of 10/10 groupies?




Is this real life?
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Well there are suppose to be 3 of these drivers. So I don't know if those improvements are for these drivers, the other 2 or all of them together.

Also, I looked at the AT review of the 6990 where the used 11.4 for the 6970/6950 and the 6970 is much closer to the 580 now and the 6950 is almost on par with the 570. Good improvements I say.
 
I think you can get some idea of the improvement by looking at today's 550Ti review:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4221/nvidias-gtx-550-ti-coming-up-short-at-150/10

Compare to the original review of the 6950/6970:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4061/amds-radeon-hd-6970-radeon-hd-6950/18

Very significant differences in many of the 6000-series cards - the 6950 now pulls ahead of the 5870 in BC2, and the 6970 is ahead of the 570. Also look at the astounding jump of the 5970. Is that a typo?!?

Here are some tests in Dirt 2:

Original 6000-series review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4061/amds-radeon-hd-6970-radeon-hd-6950/20

550Ti review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4221/nvidias-gtx-550-ti-coming-up-short-at-150/12

Again, some nice gains for the 6950/6970, and another unbelieveable gain for the 5970.

And here are some Crysis numbers, again with huge gains for the 5970:

Original review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4061/amds-radeon-hd-6970-radeon-hd-6950/13

550Ti review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4221/nvidias-gtx-550-ti-coming-up-short-at-150/5

Not all tests show differences, and the test setup indicates that different drivers were used - so maybe Anandtech just couldn't update all AMD numbers in time.
 
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In B 4 AMD drivers SUCK IT! <--- jokein'



  • Up to 70&#37; performance improvement in Civilization V
  • Up to 49% performance improvement in Call of Duty: Black Ops
  • Up to 23% performance improvement in F1 2010
  • Up to 21% performance improvement in Wolfenstein MP
  • Up to 15% performance improvement in Tom Clancy&#8217;s H.A.W.X
  • Up to 17% performance improvement in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
  • Up to 28% performance improvement in Metro2033
  • Up to 33% performance improvement in Left 4 Dead 2
  • Up to 26% performance improvement in FarCry 2
  • Up to 15% performance improvement in Crysis Warhead
  • Up to 50% performance improvement in Unigine Heaven
  • Up to 22% performance improvement in Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Up to 19% performance improvement in Aliens vs. Predator
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checks calendar... nope its not the 1st of April.
WTF!? 70% gains in Civ 5?
28% gains in Metro 2033? Wow.
50% gains in Unigine Engine O_O'

"Okay... howd you do it?" *nudges driver dude with elbow*
"found some error in your codeing that limited tesselation performance or something?"

*shakes head*

Man those guys working on the drivers are doing nice things.
Adding tessellation slider, Adding MLAA, Crossfire Scaleing up-age,
Keeping up with game releases, and constant driver updates with improvements.


Also, I looked at the AT review of the 6990 where the used 11.4 for the 6970/6950 and the 6970 is much closer to the 580 now and the 6950 is almost on par with the 570. Good improvements I say.
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AMD driver team have their act straight....I think.
 
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Skurge said:
Wow, those are some huge gains for the 5970 and some good gains for the other 6 series cards. Magic driver? 😛
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Ha, ha, yeah...

Even some Civ5 improvements:

Original: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4061/amds-radeon-hd-6970-radeon-hd-6950/17

550Ti review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4221/nvidias-gtx-550-ti-coming-up-short-at-150/9

I noticed that the 6990 review also had the updated numbers, and the 11.4 preview was used for that test as well, so apparently these numbers have been around for about a week.
 
Arkadrel said:
In B 4 AMD drivers SUCK IT! <--- jokein'


checks calendar... nope its not the 1st of April.
WTF!? 70% gains in Civ 5?
28% gains in Metro 2033? Wow.
50% gains in Unigine Engine O_O'

"Okay... howd you do it?" *nudges driver dude with elbow*
"found some error in your codeing that limited tesselation performance or something?"

*shakes head*

Man those guys working on the drivers are doing nice things.
Adding tessellation slider, Adding MLAA, Crossfire Scaleing up-age,
Keeping up with game releases, and constant driver updates with improvements.


AMD driver team have their act straight....I think.
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I have to add something about the crossfire profiles. They add games that are months away from release. F1 2010 had a profile before release, Fable 3 and NFS shift 2 already have profiles. Maybe that Billion dollars Intel gave them was put to good use.
 
Termie said:
Ha, ha, yeah...

Even some Civ5 improvements:

Original: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4061/amds-radeon-hd-6970-radeon-hd-6950/17

550Ti review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4221/nvidias-gtx-550-ti-coming-up-short-at-150/9

I noticed that the 6990 review also had the updated numbers, and the 11.4 preview was used for that test as well, so apparently these numbers have been around for about a week.
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Hmm, there were definitely some improvements in some games ... but when you advertise 70% increase in performance you'd better make sure your charts don't look like ... uh ... that.

That's quite the bold face lie from AMD ...
 
oh i get it!

when they say 70&#37; in Civ5 they actually mean 70%, not 170% 😀

me and my 4850 will sit yet-another-driver-update out, but I'm eying a used 5870.
 
-Slacker- said:
Hmm, there were definitely some improvements in some games ... but when you advertise 70% increase in performance you'd better make sure your charts don't look like ... uh ... that.

That's quite the bold face lie from AMD ...
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No it isn't, and you know it isn't. Why did you make that post?
 
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4061/amds-radeon-hd-6970-radeon-hd-6950/17
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/4221/nvidias-gtx-550-ti-coming-up-short-at-150/9
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GTX570 went up from 38,7fps to 74fps
HD6970 went up from 35,2fps to 54,9fps

WTF ???
 
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