Dopo il rilascio nella giornata di ieri dei nuovi driver GeForce 310.54 di casa NVIDIA, AMD ha reso disponibili i nuovi driver Catalyst 12.11 beta. I driver integrano importanti novità ed ottimizzazioni espressamente pensate per essere utilizzate con il videogioco CODBOII (Call of Duty Black Ops II).
Di seguito la lista completa delle novità (a breve i driver saranno disponibili nella nostra Area Download):
This driver introduces significant performance improvements for many games across ALL 28nm AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series products: HD 7700, HD7800 and HD7900.
Performance Highlights of the AMD CATALYST 12.11 BETA Driver
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10%-15% more performance in Battlefield 3 in most cases
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More than 20% in certain missions and sequences (Comrades)
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Up to 7% more performance in Metro 2033
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Up to 10% more performance in DIRT Showdown
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Up to 8% more performance in Sleeping Dogs
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Up to 12% more performance in Civilization V
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Up to 10% more performance in StarCraft II
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Up to 8% more performance in Sniper Elite: V2
Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta Driver
- Medal of Honor: Warfighter; AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta4 resolves an application crash found when running in AMD CrossFire mode with Anti-Aliasing enabled (This issue was observed in the AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta3; The AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta4 has replaced the AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta3 driver that was posted Oct 22 2012).
- Resolves performance issues (where GPU activity runs at lower values than expected) seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7870.
- 3DMark Vantage – Up to 15%
- 3DMark 11 – Up to 12%
- AvP – Up to 11%
- Battlefield 3 – Up to 25%
- Crysis 2: Up to 45%
- DiRT Showdown – Up to 62%
- ETQW – Up to 8%
- Hard Reset – Up to 8%
- Just Cause 2 – Up to 90%
- The Chronicles of Riddick – Up to 4%
- Shogun 2 – Up to 56%
- Sniper Elite V2 – Up to 60%
- Tom Clancy’s HAWX – Up to 56%
- Unigine Heaven – Up to 33%
- Wolfenstein – Up to 9%
AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro™ Technology supported platforms has been substantially improved for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications. An updated driver for 7970M users featuring AMD Enduro Technology with additional DirectX 9 performance improvements will be released soon.
- AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta6 resolves the issue with engine and memory clocks running too high when the GPU is idle. Clocks will now run at the proper level when the GPU is idle. This issue was only observed with specific displays and was observed in the AMD Catalyst 12.11Beta 4 and AMD Catalyst 12.10 drivers; The AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta6 has replaced the AMD Catalyst 12.11Beta 4 driver that was posted Oct 23, 2012.
- Additional update found in AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta7
- Call of Duty Black Ops 2: AMD CrossFire performance has been improved in the AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta7 release (especially at higher resolutions – such as 2560×1600)
- Please note that AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 7 includes all of the fixes found in previous versions of AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta