ATI Catalyst 10.3 Drivers Offer Gaming Boosts

I noticed a couple FPS gain w/ Assassin's Creed 2 also. While running 3x1 eyefinity.

20 percent in Dirt2? nice!

Nice jump in performance and that's without the little extra bonus that Nvidia gave some of their customers when they found out there video card had melted after installing the driver!

Is this version going to fix the gray line issue? Or ATI simply doesn't care?

No love for the 3800 series?

Hmmm let's see those benchmarks run again for the nVidia cards..lol

i have been satisfied with my 4870x2 for over a year ... and it keeps getting better ...

this is interesting. with word on the street that the GTX4x0 being 5-10% faster than the corresponding 58x0
looking at some of these driver improvements such as
-Improves up to 10% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
-Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products

seems like when the new GTXs come out they are going to be real close. That should only last till Nvidia's first driver update.

Seems to me Nvidia drivers jump in leaps and bounds and ATI are smaller incremental updates. Strange when you see a 4870x2 snuck up on the gtx295. But when you look back though the benches you see them getting closer and closer.

Since I installed Cat. 10.2( Now I have 10.3), I never had the line issue.

Am I talking nonsense or did they nearly beat the nvidia-claimed few percent better performance by fermi just with a driver update?

5-10% faster than what?

This was expected and I can say I'm really excited that they were able to offer better performance. When I'm able to afford it, I'm without a doubt buying an ATi card. I can't say how Fermi will perform, but if the sources are correct, I'm not paying $350-500 for the top two cards when "5-10%" costs so much less. Prove me wrong nVidia. Please?

It brought back my stuttering issue in Far Cry 2, but aside from that, performance has increased in almost every single game.

AMD's said that they've already worked out performance enhancements for Bad Company 2 as well, to be released sometime in the future.

Holy SH*T, an article about ATI?!! woahhhhh, that's a first.

Wow, 20-30% performance enhancement in Dirt2. I wonder how they managed that. Nice work.

FERMI = FAIL.

I was hoping for Bad Company 2 to be listed there =(

Ati just needs to keeping refining their drivers for the 5000 and the 4000 to keep them in the front of the gpu war. The hardware is there and it is proven that it can kick out high-end graphics while using less power. I own two 4890's and single 5770 and a 8800gtx. The best performing card per-watt is the 5770 by far and with the upcoming driver revisions these cards are only going to get more efficent. Fermi well thats a whole other story.

There goes the GTX 480's supposed "5-10% boost in performance over the 5870."

downloading right now to test this beast of a driver out.

I got +5 FPS in average FPS in Dirt 2! From 40 it went to 45 with 10.3! That is with my HD 4870 1GB.

I'm assuming there is a major fix to dx10 and dx11 games since both H.A.W.X. and DIRT 2 got the biggest boost.

Noticed 15 fps increase on dirt 2 running crossfire 5850s and eyefinity on ultra settings 4xAA 5940 x 1080. 50+ fps. Very nice check out the video proof. I'm liking the bezel correction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPk67UmiWp0

Nice. Im off to test this out. Got a 5770 and it hasnt let me down yet! Keep up the good work ATI!

Nice to see they tested this drivers first. They only need to adjust the freaky 5830 and 5850 prices then we ca walk a long path.

Hey brennan, nice video. I haven't thought much about eye-finity but this looks pretty sweet. Now how to buy two more monitors without my wife finding out!

I'm wondering when monitor manufacturers are gonna start making lcd;s without the bezel, or at least very small/thin.

I have a 22 inch, I've been eyeing some 24 in models, but it seems like if I'm gonna step up I should at least get a 26" or better. Getting another 22" would be ok, but I couldn't stand the bezels in the middle. But 3 monitors would be way cool!

How about the 4600 series, is it affected?

also works on mobility radeon HD series. works like acharm for my mobility2600xt

I got a free acer 22" not long back, and decided to see how much I could cut off the bezel area. Was able to remove all but a mm or 2 of space. It doesn't look pretty, but I'm not gaming to notice the visual flaws of my hardware. If I decide to or happen by a third 22", I'll probably do the same with this one and another.

Nic to see they're slowly fixing the 5000 series cards.
They may have released them earlier than the Nvidia 400 cards, but we've been nothing more than a test group.

The 4870 was better than the 5770 originally, I'm assuming the 5770 is now surpassing it based on driver updates alone. Too bad they crippled its memory.

Now only if retailers would stick to the MSRP. ATI doesn't benefit at all when they raise the prices, and we all know stores such as Newegg and MemoryExpress don't need any more money.