Thursday, December 17th 2009
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ATI Catalyst 9.12 WHQL Released
AMD released its latest version of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite to date, Catalyst 9.12 WHQL, which provides drivers and system software for the company's ATI Radeon graphics processors, AMD 7-series chipset IGPs, ATI multimedia products, and the AMD FireStream GPGPU processors. Version 9.12 announced today, comes with expanded GPU support for DirectCompute 10.1 for specific GPUs, includes performance increments, OpenGL 3.2 extension support, along with the usual application-specific fixes.
To begin with, application-specific performance increments include an overall performance improvement as high as 9% on the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, for 3DMark Vantage. GT1 - Jane Nash performance improves as much as 15% and FT4 - GPU Cloth improves up to 15%. Performance improves as much as 6% on single card configurations for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of Pripyat. The release provides DirectCompute 10.1 support for ATI Radeon HD 4800 and HD 4700 GPUs in both single and multi-GPU configurations. Lastly, this release adds support for certain OpenGL 3.2 extensions for all GPUs from Radeon HD 2000 series and upward (HD 3000, HD 4000, and HD 5000).
DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 9.12 WHQL for Windows 7/Vista 32-bit | Windows 7/Vista 64-bit | Windows XP 32-bit | Windows XP 64-bit
For more information, refer to the Release Notes document.
To begin with, application-specific performance increments include an overall performance improvement as high as 9% on the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, for 3DMark Vantage. GT1 - Jane Nash performance improves as much as 15% and FT4 - GPU Cloth improves up to 15%. Performance improves as much as 6% on single card configurations for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of Pripyat. The release provides DirectCompute 10.1 support for ATI Radeon HD 4800 and HD 4700 GPUs in both single and multi-GPU configurations. Lastly, this release adds support for certain OpenGL 3.2 extensions for all GPUs from Radeon HD 2000 series and upward (HD 3000, HD 4000, and HD 5000).
DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 9.12 WHQL for Windows 7/Vista 32-bit | Windows 7/Vista 64-bit | Windows XP 32-bit | Windows XP 64-bit
For more information, refer to the Release Notes document.
83 Comments on ATI Catalyst 9.12 WHQL Released
I'm afraid I can sir. :ohwell:
Every website and magazine reports on this but ATi/AMD do nothing.
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I don't have an eyefinity setup but sugarcoat-me-and-call-me-Jenny, hot damn I'd like one now. If I won lotto tomorrow I'd be getting 2 x 5970 and 3 x 24" screens and I'd be shitting myself with the beautifully warped perspective.
my screwup, i saw WAW and read MW2
All my fan controls work, the card clocks great just like before, and performance is great as well.
Kei
Drats, 3Dmark06 gives the error and monitor won't go into 640x480.
All working OK.
Are we back to this again ATI? A hour process to install new drivers, just like it used to be? And AVIVO is using CPU instead of stream to process video files, and so far both tests for me have F'ed up the aspect ratio during conversion.
and your DirectCompute scores seem fine:
"I'm getting about D3100 for a single 4890@990MHz" from Pat the creator of the benchmark.
and to have OpenCL you need to download and install the stream dev kit: developer.amd.com/GPU/ATISTREAMSDK/Pages/default.aspx