AMD rilascia i driver Catalyst 12.10 WHQL e 12.11 beta 1

 

AMD ha reso disponibili per il download i nuovi driver Catalyst, giunti ora alla versione 12.10, che includono piccoli miglioramenti senza, tuttavia, apportare alcun cambiamento dal punto di vista prestazionale.

Il contemporaneo rilascio dei  Catalyst 12.11 beta sarà invece molto apprezzato dai videogiocatori visto che introducono numerose ottimizzazioni per le schede Radeon HD 7000 aumentandone le prestazioni nei titoli più recenti.

I nuovi driver AMD Catalyst 12.10 e 12.11 Beta sono scaricabili ai seguenti link:

 

 

Di seguito la lista delle novità introdotte con i nuovi driver 12.11 beta.

 

Performance Highlights of the AMD CATALYST 12.11 BETA Driver

  • 10%-15% more performance in Battlefield 3 in most cases. More than 20% in certain missions and sequences (Comrades)
  • Up to 7% more performance in Metro 2033
  • Up to 10% more performance in DIRT Showdown
  • Up to 8% more performance in Sleeping Dogs
  • Up to 12% more performance in Civilization V
  • Up to 10% more performance in StarCraft II
  • Up to 8% more performance in Sniper Elite: V2 

Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta Driver

  • Resolves performance issues (where GPU activity runs at lower values than expected) seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7870
  • AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduroâ„¢ Technology supported platforms has been substantially improved for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications. An updated driver for 7970M users featuring AMD Enduroâ„¢ Technology with additional DirectX 9 performance improvements will be released soon.
    • 3DMark Vantage – Up to 15%
    • 3DMark 11 – Up to 12%
    • AvP – Up to 11%
    • Battlefield 3 – Up to 25%
    • Crysis 2: Up to 45%
    • DiRT Showdown – Up to 62%
    • ETQW – Up to 8%
    • Hard Reset – Up to 8%
    • Just Cause 2 – Up to 90%
    • The Chronicles of Riddick – Up to 4%
    • Shogun 2 – Up to 56%
    • Sniper Elite V2 – Up to 60%
    • Tom Clancy’s HAWX – Up to 56%
    • Unigine Heaven – Up to 33%
    • Wolfenstein – Up to 9%

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