Sunday, October 21st 2012
AMD Announces Never Settle Catalyst 12.11 Driver Update
AMD announced what it calls the "Never Settle" driver, a version of Catalyst Software suite, which could potentially tilt the price-performance ratios in its favor, against NVIDIA. The new drivers carry the canonical version number 12.11, and target AMD Radeon 7000 series GPUs, specifically those based on the Graphics CoreNext architecture, such as HD 7750, HD 7770 GHz Ed., HD 7850, HD 7870 GHz Ed., HD 7950, HD 7950 BE, HD 7970, HD 7970 GHz Ed., and HD 7990; and mobile Radeon HD 7700M series, HD 7800M series, and HD 7900M series.
Catalyst 12.11 promises up to 15% performance improvements in the most modern games, such as Battlefield 3, DiRT Showdown, Sleeping Dogs, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, and more. With these improvements, AMD is claiming performance leads for all its top products, over NVIDIA's. The Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, for example, gains 20% performance advantage over GeForce GTX 680; HD 7970 gains 15% over GTX 670, and HD 7950 20% over GTX 660 Ti. The Never Settle driver, along with its complete release notes and download links will be updated a little later today.
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Catalyst 12.11 promises up to 15% performance improvements in the most modern games, such as Battlefield 3, DiRT Showdown, Sleeping Dogs, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, and more. With these improvements, AMD is claiming performance leads for all its top products, over NVIDIA's. The Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, for example, gains 20% performance advantage over GeForce GTX 680; HD 7970 gains 15% over GTX 670, and HD 7950 20% over GTX 660 Ti. The Never Settle driver, along with its complete release notes and download links will be updated a little later today.
19 Comments on AMD Announces Never Settle Catalyst 12.11 Driver Update
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Catalyst_12.11_Performance/
glad, they're comeback and challenge of its rival with this major improvement through their radeon driver. great job amd!
Have the newer drivers since launch been increasing performance this much?
I distinctly remember the 7970 losing by a hefty margin in some nvidia tuned games, yet here, it's clearly beating the 680, even without the new driver?
Games that had massive deficits are now pretty close.
Or are that many sites paid off nowadays (stupid question, really)?
I am ignoring everything except 2560x1600, though. :DOCed that card is an incredible value.
How about the 7970 none ghz card?
Also, TPU is one of the only sites that actually keeps its results updated with current drivers as we go along - most sites just get their numbers at a card's launch and then plug those into all future reviews, leading to irrelevant info.
There is even an official AMD upgrade installer somewhere. :)
as you know amd when first released the 7970 they were very easy with clocks to guarantee better yield, and it turned out excellent from that part so they started selling ghz edition which easily beats the 680 in most games. last time you saw a review it probably was the vanilla 7970(which could easily be flashed to ghz edition, or oced)