ATI, now being as AMD part, already for few years follows the tradition when releasing video cards drivers. It supposes one release per month. From one side such periodicity does not allow to bring in cardinal changes within the frame of a few updates, but innovations and corrections of errors are made not immediately, but gradually. And it is possible to look after this process very intently.
Changes are in next Catalyst can touch both the correction of errors, addition new useful functions and increase in performance in certain games and tests.
The new version of ATI Catalyst 10.9 driver was presented the other day. List of its changes for Windows looks like the following:
Performance Improvements:
- STALKER: Call of Pripyat Benchmark
- Performance increases up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations with Enhanced full dynamic lighting (DX11) and anti-aliasing enabled
- Performance increases up to 12% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire configurations with Enhanced full dynamic lighting (DX11) and anti-aliasing enabled
- The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
- Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire configurations
- Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series single and CrossFire configurations
- Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations
- Performance increases up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 Series single and CrossFire configurations
New Catalyst Linux driver contains following changes:
- RHEL 6 early look support
It is possible to download new driver ATI Catalyst 10.9 from our catalog:
