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

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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,

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  • wavetrex
    Bullsh*t !
    There is no change, absolutely no change, I got the exact same scores/fps in games with the new 8.7 as I had with 8.6, on my standard clocked 4870.

    I dunno what things these drivers do, but speed isn't improved at all.
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  • eklipz330
    wavetrex, did you read the games that were improved?
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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.
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  • goonting
    the 4800 does not have much to improve to date... perhaps Crossfirex improves... will test it later with my HD3870...
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  • creepster
    I play games, not benchmarks...
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