Languishing yourself in the bang-for-the-buck Radeon HD 4800s? Or still packing those twin 3600s for a CrossFire party? Well, put it on hold. AMD has just updated the ATI Catalyst unified driver set to version 8.7, which is available all across the versions of XP and Vista. Now though this driver set hauls a minimalist changelog, hardware enthusiasts managed to determine the following performance increases (as quoted from Guru3D): 3DMark Vantage: Performance increases of up to 20 is noticed in the Performance Preset on single card configured systems when using ATI Radeon HD 36xx or ATI Radeon HD 34xx products Company of Heroes DX10: Performance increases of 3 to 12 is noticed in specific maps on single card configured systems when using either an ATI Radeon HD 48xx, ATI Radeon HD 38xx, or an ATI Radeon HD 36xx product Lost Planet DX10: Performance increases of 4 to 15 is noticed in specific maps on single card configured systems when using either an ATI Radeon HD 48xx, ATI Radeon HD 38xx, or an ATI Radeon HD 36xx product Call Of Duty 4 DX9: Performance increases of up to 4 in specific maps is noticed on single card configured systems when using an ATI Radeon HD 48xx product Lost Planet DX9: CrossFire scaling improves up to 1.7x and performance increases up to 80 across all Radeon products when AA and AF is enabled Now that's sexy right there - nothing like an anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering tandem AND a framerate hike in one pi ...
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Languishing yourself in the bang-for-the-buck Radeon HD 4800s? Or still packing those twin 3600s for a CrossFire party? Well, put it on hold. AMD has just updated the ATI Catalyst unified driver set to version 8.7, which is available all across the versions of XP and Vista. Now though this driver set hauls a minimalist changelog, hardware enthusiasts managed to determine the following performance increases (as quoted from Guru3D): 3DMark Vantage: Performance increases of up to 20 is noticed in the Performance Preset on single card configured systems when using ATI Radeon HD 36xx or ATI Radeon HD 34xx products Company of Heroes DX10: Performance increases of 3 to 12 is noticed in specific maps on single card configured systems when using either an ATI Radeon HD 48xx, ATI Radeon HD 38xx, or an ATI Radeon HD 36xx product Lost Planet DX10: Performance increases of 4 to 15 is noticed in specific maps on single card configured systems when using either an ATI Radeon HD 48xx, ATI Radeon HD 38xx, or an ATI Radeon HD 36xx product Call Of Duty 4 DX9: Performance increases of up to 4 in specific maps is noticed on single card configured systems when using an ATI Radeon HD 48xx product Lost Planet DX9: CrossFire scaling improves up to 1.7x and performance increases up to 80 across all Radeon products when AA and AF is enabled Now that's sexy right there - nothing like an anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering tandem AND a framerate hike in one pi ...