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Do New Drivers Really Boost Performance?

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New AMD/ATI Catalyst Drivers Promise Higher Benchmark Scores, Smoother Gameplay

5:20 AM - July 22, 2008 by Humphrey Cheung
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Category : Graphics Cards
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Los Angeles - AMD has released its newest Catalyst Windows and Linux drivers for the ATI Radeon graphics cards. The Catalyst 8.7 drivers promise performance increases of up to 20% in the 3DMark Vantage benchmark and frame rate increases of up to 15% in games like Company of Heroes, Los Planet and Call of Duty 4. Linux fans will be happy as the drivers now include support for Ubuntu 8.04 and SLED 10 sp2. You can download Catalyst 8.7 from AMD’s support page here.

AMD Catalyst driver download page


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wavetrex 07/22/2008 12:21 PM
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eklipz330 07/22/2008 2:32 AM
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eklipz330

wavetrex, did you read the games that were improved?

sublifer 07/22/2008 3:13 AM
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sublifer

and the cards improved.... the lower cards almost always get the best improvements. Read elsewhere the high gains are generally 3600 and 3400 cards. I do recall seeing something listing up to 4% improvement in 48x0 cards... just a few games though I think.

goonting 07/22/2008 6:00 AM
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the 4800 does not have much to improve to date... perhaps Crossfirex improves... will test it later with my HD3870...

creepster 07/22/2008 9:27 AM
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I play games, not benchmarks...

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