Disponibili i nuovi ATI Catalyst 8.6
[IMG]logo/ati.gif[/IMG]In attesa del rilascio delle nuove schede ATI Radeon HD 4800, AMD ha rilasciato nella giornata di oggi i nuovi driver Catalyst 8.6. I driver supportano tutte le schede della serie 3000 incluse le schede video integrate 3100 e 3200. In questa release è stata introdotto il supporto alla tecnologia OpenGL Adaptive Anti-Aliasing Custom Filters,che permette di utilizzare particolare filtri durante l'applicazione dell'Antialiasing. Di seguito le note di rilascio disponibili con i driver:
- 3DMark Vantage: 10 to 15% gains across all Radeon HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, with larger gains in specific cases.
- Call of Duty 4: Performance increases across all Radeon HD 3xxx andHD 2xxx products, with gains as large as 35% in specific maps.
- Call of Juarez DX10: Performance increases between 2 and 9% across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products
- Company of Heroes (DX10 version): Performance increases between 4 and 10% across HD 36xx and HD 34xx products.
- Lost Planet (DX10 version): Performance increases by 1 or 2 fpsacross all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, creating in some cases up to20% increase.
- Lost Planet (DX9 version): Performance increases between 2 and 20% across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products
- Prey OpenGL: 3-5% gains across HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.
- Quake 4 OpenGL: Up to 8% increase across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.
- Shadermark 2.1: Minor improvements across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxxproducts, with the largest gains appearing on HD 3650 (up to 9%)
- ViewPerf 10: Substantial performance improvements across several ofthe sub-tests, with the largest gains in ugnx (up to 55%), catia (up to17%) and tcvis (up to 10%) across all of the HD 3xxx and HD 2xxxproducts.
I Catalyst 8.6 introducono inoltre il supporto alla tecnologia CrossFireX anche durante l'esecuzione di applicazioni OpenGL. Potete scaricare i driver direttamente dal nostro sito web ai seguenti link:
