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Introduction of AMD Catalyst Accelerated Parallel Processing ("APP") technology Edition

There will now be two variants of the AMD Catalyst package available:

  • AMD Catalyst (comparable to prior versions in features and components) - currently includes the Direct3D, OpenGL, display driver and AMD Catalyst Control Center components.

  • AMD Catalyst Accelerated Parallel Processing (“APP”) technology Edition - AMD Catalyst plus the OpenCL driver


Video acceleration for WMV HD video content

  • This release of AMD Catalyst provides video acceleration support for WMV HD (Microsoft videocodec) under Windows 7

  • Compatible with the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series of products

Enhanced Dynamic Contrast video controls

  • This release of AMD Catalyst enhances the Dynamic Contrast setting found in the Catalyst Control Center by adding histogram based detection 


Introduction of AMD HD3D Technology

Blu-ray 3D Support 

  • This release of AMD Catalyst enables Blu-ray 3D playback

  • Requirements include Blu-ray 3D player software, 3D supported display and 3D Stereoscopic glasses

  • Compatible with the AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series

Stereo 3D Gaming Compatibility

  • This release of AMD Catalyst enables Stereo 3D gaming via 3rd party Stereo 3D Conversion


Software from Dynamic Digital Depth (DDD) and iZ3D

  • Requirements include 3D supported display and 3D Stereoscopic glasses

  • Compatible with the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series 


Performance Improvements

Aliens vs. Predator DirectX 11 Benchmark

  • Performance increases up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire

  • Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire

  • Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series

  • Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series

  • Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series


BattleForge

  • Performance increases up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled

  • Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and


CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled

Crysis Warhead

Performance increases up to 9% on Single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products with anti-aliasing enabled


Far Cry 2

Performance increases up to 7% on Single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products


Metro 2033

  • Performance increases up to 7% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations

  • Performance increases up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire configurations Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series in DirectX 11 and 10 modes

  • Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series in DirectX 11 and 10 modes

  • Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series in DirectX 11 and 10 modes


S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Benchmark

Performance increases up to 7% on single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products


Unigine Heaven

  • Performance increases up to 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled

  • Performance increases up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled 


World in Conflict

  • Performance increases up to 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series

  • Performance increases up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series