AMD has released the Catalyst 10.6 drivers for those running on ATI Radeon HD 2000, 3000, 4000 and 5000 series desktop cards and Radeon HD 3000 and 4000 series IGPs.
New features - GPU acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1 - Video De-blocking supportReduces blocking artifacts seen in low-bit rate video during playback (for users of Radeon HD 5000 series cards) - Mosquito noise reductionReduces mosquito noise seen in highly compressed progressive video, during playback (for users of Radeon HD 5000 series cards) - Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3 (OpenGL 4.0 supported by Radeon HD 5000 series only) Performance improvements - 3DMark VantageOverall scores improve up to 5% on a single ATI Radeon HD 5970 - Batman: Arkham AsylumPerformance improves up to 5% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5800 series cardsPerformance improves up to 10% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations - Aliens vs. Predator DirectX 11 BenchmarkPerformance improves up to 4% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cardsPerformance improves up to 10% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurationsPerformance improves up to 3% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series cards - Company of Heroes - DX10Performance improves up to 7% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cardsPerformance improves up to 5% with single card and CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations - Crysis WarheadCrossFire performance improves by up to 7% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series cards - DiRT 2 - DX9Performance improves up to 10% on single card ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cardsPerformance improves up to 10% on single card ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurationsPerformance improves up to 4% on single card ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series cards - The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark AthenaPerformance improves up to 15% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cardsPerformance improves up to 13% on CrossFire and single card ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurationsPerformance improves up to 8% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series cards - Unigine TropicsCrossFire performance improves by up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series cards - World in ConflictPerformance improves up to 6% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cardsPerformance improves up to 8% on CrossFire and single card ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations - WolfensteinPerformance improves up to 18% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cardsPerformance improves up to 18% on CrossFire and single card ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurationsPerformance improves up to 11% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series cards
