Cat 8.10 are here

[JAYDEEJOHN]

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

 

[No1sFanboy]

Thanks, look forward to trying them when I get home.

 

[petevsdrm]

Thanks Jay, I'm waiting for the UPS guy right now with my 4870x2, I'll go ahead and download these now.

 

[yonef]

Strange, the officials are lower build that the previously leaked beta
8.10_beta_build: 69566, officials_8.10_build: 69565.
What does this mean? they reverted back?

 

[spathotan]

Ive noticed the same thing with Nvidia drivers. For example, beta would be 182.94 while the live version of it would be 181.42. Ive made those numbers up but you get the point, I think the beta drivers with the PhysX crap in them were the ones numbered like that.

 

[Guest]

beta build has been 100% stable after having many issues with 8.9... haven't noticed any increase/decrease in performance though... so don't really care as long as its working well... maybe if AMD releases a driver that is a substantial improvement... i'll update

 

[3Ball]

Downloaded and installed them. They seem to be working great. The manual fan speed control option is a very welcome feature in my book.

Best,

3Ball

 

[zero3one]

Nice, I'm looking forward to installing it once I get home.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

I hear the minimum fps are a little better in some games, makes for a smoother experience, as they dont drop off and jump back up

 

[L1qu1d]

yeah the new drivers seem to make gameplay on my secondary better, I always thought it was the CPU holding the card back (sorta still is).

The new nvidia drivers are up as well, also 7-15%% increase in performance for sli and single GPU, also compatibility fixes with tri sli and Quad Sli

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_178.24_whql.html


You kno what I think is a little weird, the min frame rate for my X2 is lower than 1 280 GTX, sometimes over, but not by alot...any1 know why?

All the Dual GPU cards I had were like this (the gx2 the worst...)

 

[SpinachEater]

Sweet, the fan control that should have been there in the first place. At least they got around to it finally.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Your X2 is cpu challenged, and thats where youll see cpu problems first is minimum fps, especially with X2 configs. Raising your cpu speeds may not see any higher fps, but most likely will shore up the minimal fps, again especially with a X2 setup

 

[L1qu1d]

no no not in my secondary, when I put it in my primary my primary runs @ 3.6, I tested both cards @ 1920x1200, 1 280 GTX came out AVG slower, but min higher, and in some cases only 1 or 2 frames lower than the X2.

 

[Maziar]

I hear the minimum fps are a little better in some games, makes for a smoother experience, as they dont drop off and jump back up

thanks for the link jaydee
well i havent tested a game yet but still the second card downclocks in idle mode

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Since the X2 is usually faster than a 280 in many games, it requires more from your cpu. It being a X2 , it requires even more. What youre seeing in your primary is normal. Increase your oc, and youll see maybe little or no minimum fps increases with the 280, but youd see more with the X2. Its a cpu slowdown is all. Thats providing the game scales well in SLI of course

 

[Maziar]

I also tested CRYSIS with the new cfg that i got which is for HD 4870 and i got a very good and smooth game play with 40 FPS average on 1680x1050 0xAA.
The cfg gave me 10-15 FPS increase and CATALYST 8.10 helped the FPS not to drop and gave me extra ones too :d

 

[L1qu1d]

yup crysis can be maxed out with the 4870 X with out stuttering for me 2. I still have drop downs compared to the 280 though, which is anoying, but on average it is about 25-30% faster than my 1 of my 280s, COD4 pushes that to almost 40% more, and grid the same.

The new driver is very neat.

I heard though that AMD's increases in perfromance aren't as high as Nvidias there was a review I saw not long ago, I can't remember from where I'll google it and see if I can find it again.

Any opinions?

Don't put too emotion on the subject, factually speaking.

We all know 280 GTX tri > 4870 X2 Quad > 280 GTX sli > 4870 X2 > 280 GTX etc....

I just want to kno if the review was true about the performance gains, I think it was THG that said it actually:S

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

I get the feeling these new cards were somewhat rushed. To take marketshare, and thats what theyve done. Theres been alot of bug fixes to go thru, and mostly, thats what the drivers have been focused on. I think we will start seeing improvements in them from this reslease onwards. Theres a few in this one, but more to come. Also, Id point out, that when that article was written, they were using now 2 older versions back drivers, and nVidias release was sooner and more complete when they arrived, so theyve had more time to focus on thier performance. This is my HO, but it seems to fit

 

[L1qu1d]

personally I kno that 4870 X2 quads won't beat the 280s tri sli since its harder to optimize for and it just doesn't fit in with the math, but it will give Nvidia some running for its money.

I just saw in store a 4870 X2 for 449.99$ which means you can quad fire for about 900$ where as the AVG price for 280s is still around 420$.

So even if tri sli beats the 4870 X2 it would cost alot more, which doesn't cover the cost/Performance ratio.

So it all depends

 

[Maziar]

I get the feeling these new cards were somewhat rushed. To take marketshare, and thats what theyve done. Theres been alot of bug fixes to go thru, and mostly, thats what the drivers have been focused on. I think we will start seeing improvements in them from this reslease onwards. Theres a few in this one, but more to come. Also, Id point out, that when that article was written, they were using now 2 older versions back drivers, and nVidias release was sooner and more complete when they arrived, so theyve had more time to focus on thier performance. This is my HO, but it seems to fit

So jaydee,u didnt answer me
U said 8.10 lets u let the card to run @ stock speeds and no downclocks.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

It still doesnt downclock? I havnt tested these, Im going on what Id heard. So its still running 750 on one card in 2D mode?

 

[Annisman]

I am still gonna use RC2 cuz they rock.

 

[spathotan]

750 core on 1 card? No, mine has always downclocked to 500mhz.

 

[Annisman]

That's usual for these cards, they up the clocks when 3D apps begin.

 

[spathotan]

I know that. There was a "dispute" in an above post over the card not downclocking to 500mhz when idle.