Catalyst 8.5 tested @ Amdzone

[marvelous211]

http://www.amdzone.com/index.php/reviews/61/9658-ati-85-catalyst-performance-review?start=1

Very nice performance increase in WIC. 20% to be exact.

 

[royalcrown]

If they could just make the control center less sucky...lol. Nvidias isn't so good either though.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Just download the display driver and then use AtiTrayTools to replace the control center.

At least there's that option, which isn't available to most others.

 

[a 6pack in]

not bad, still no fan control tho, right?

 

[Crazy-PC]

I have my 3870 updated to Catalyst 8.5 was found with problem on HD watching, especially the HDTV; the CPU utilization for HD was over 50% which shown that no GPU Encoding worked for the HDTV. After installed the hotfix that released on May-21-2008 for Catalyst 8.5, the HD movie and HDTV was OK again, the CPU utilization become lower than 15%. The review by AMD is just too narrow as just 3 to 4 game benchmark is incomplete but I still keep my Catalyst 8.5 since it doesn't show any side effect for overall performance now.

 

[mactronix]

Just download the display driver and then use AtiTrayTools to replace the control center.

At least there's that option, which isn't available to most others.

I have been doing it this way for a while now, i find that AtiTrayTools gives me much more in depth controll over my settings, which in turn gives me better performance than would be the case tith the control center.
Mactronix

 

[DISKCORP]

Best 4 my pc...Improvement in Coh Opp. Front. Asus eah3850..