AMD today announced the latest version of Catalyst with numerous features and performance improvements introduced. The driver works with both mobile and stationary graphics chipsets, more precisely, with all the chips of the HD2000, HD3000 HD4000 HD5000 and the latest series.
The biggest new feature is called now the hardware acceleration of H.264 codecs, which is enjoying increasing dissemination, as well as the support of the presented few days ago in Flash Player version 10.1. But since speed is not everything has been worked on the quality of Videodeblockings to play HD movies in best quality. Not only that, they eliminated the sometimes very disturbing coil pipes, which is also known as the Mosquito sound. As the last major innovation, there is support for OpenGL 4.0 (HD5000) and OpenGL 3.3.
The long list of games optimizations seems almost endless, so here is an excerpt from the English original range, which are understandable to everyone
Performance improvements
- 3DMark Vantage
• Overall scores improve up to 5% on a single ATI Radeon HD 5970
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
• Performance improves up to 5% on Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5800 series cards
• Performance improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 CrossFire configurations
- Aliens Vs. Predator DirectX 11 Benchmark
• Performance improves up to 4% on Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cards
• Performance improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 CrossFire configurations
• Performance improves up to 3% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series cards
- Company of Heroes - DX10
• Performance improves up to 7% on Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cards
• Performance improves up to 5% with single card and Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations
- Crysis Warhead
• Crossfire performance improves by up to 7% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 series cards
- DiRT 2 - DX9
• Performance improves up to 10% on single card ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cards
• Performance improves up to 10% on single ATI Radeon HD 5970 card configurations
• Performance improves up to 4% on single card ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series cards
- The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena
• Performance improves up to 15% on Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cards
• Performance improves up to 13% on Crossfire and single card ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations
• Performance improves up to 8% on Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series cards
- Unigine Tropics
• Crossfire performance improves by up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 series cards
- World in Conflict
• Performance improves up to 6% on Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cards
• Performance improves up to 8% on Crossfire and single card ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations
- Wolfenstein
• Performance improves up to 18% on Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cards
• Performance improves up to% on 18 Crossfire and single card ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations
• Performance improves up to 11% on Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series cards
Download Catalyst 10.6
The biggest new feature is called now the hardware acceleration of H.264 codecs, which is enjoying increasing dissemination, as well as the support of the presented few days ago in Flash Player version 10.1. But since speed is not everything has been worked on the quality of Videodeblockings to play HD movies in best quality. Not only that, they eliminated the sometimes very disturbing coil pipes, which is also known as the Mosquito sound. As the last major innovation, there is support for OpenGL 4.0 (HD5000) and OpenGL 3.3.
The long list of games optimizations seems almost endless, so here is an excerpt from the English original range, which are understandable to everyone
Performance improvements
- 3DMark Vantage
• Overall scores improve up to 5% on a single ATI Radeon HD 5970
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
• Performance improves up to 5% on Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5800 series cards
• Performance improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 CrossFire configurations
- Aliens Vs. Predator DirectX 11 Benchmark
• Performance improves up to 4% on Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cards
• Performance improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 CrossFire configurations
• Performance improves up to 3% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series cards
- Company of Heroes - DX10
• Performance improves up to 7% on Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cards
• Performance improves up to 5% with single card and Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations
- Crysis Warhead
• Crossfire performance improves by up to 7% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 series cards
- DiRT 2 - DX9
• Performance improves up to 10% on single card ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cards
• Performance improves up to 10% on single ATI Radeon HD 5970 card configurations
• Performance improves up to 4% on single card ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series cards
- The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena
• Performance improves up to 15% on Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cards
• Performance improves up to 13% on Crossfire and single card ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations
• Performance improves up to 8% on Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series cards
- Unigine Tropics
• Crossfire performance improves by up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 series cards
- World in Conflict
• Performance improves up to 6% on Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cards
• Performance improves up to 8% on Crossfire and single card ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations
- Wolfenstein
• Performance improves up to 18% on Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cards
• Performance improves up to% on 18 Crossfire and single card ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations
• Performance improves up to 11% on Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series cards
Download Catalyst 10.6