Tuesday, June 16th 2009
AMD Announces ATI Catalyst 9.6 Driver Suite
AMD announced the availability of ATI Catalyst version 9.6 driver suite, that provides driver support for ATI Radeon series graphics processors (driver version 8.62), Hydravision, AMD Southbridge/Chipset driver, and Catalyst Control Center (version 8.62). The new version brings along the following application-specific performance increments:
DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 9.6 for Windows XP 32-bit | Windows 7/Vista 32-bit | Windows XP 64-bit | Windows 7/Vista 64-bit
Release Notes can be read here
- Company of Heores - performance gains of up to 25% for the ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series, and performance gains of up to 10% for the ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series.
- Crysis Warhead - performance gains of up to 11% for ATI CrossFireX configurations.
- Crysis - performance gains of up to 13% for ATI CrossFireX configurations.
- World in Conflict - performance gains of up to 30% for settings are were previously CPU limited.
DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 9.6 for Windows XP 32-bit | Windows 7/Vista 32-bit | Windows XP 64-bit | Windows 7/Vista 64-bit
Release Notes can be read here
29 Comments on AMD Announces ATI Catalyst 9.6 Driver Suite
Or is this for multi-card solutions (vs single card, multi-GPU)?
It's mean + 1FPS :D
This driver is very good, thanks Ati :toast:
Does it work with Windows 7 or do we need to download that other set of drivers?
Now for the people running their stuff at say 50 FPS,this will give them +6.5 FPS. Not great, but better.
Crysis warhead on gamer and 1280x0124 gives me 46 fps average , from catalyst 8.11 to catalyst 9.6 this didn't changed too much , it gives me eighter 45 or 46 but it's nothing major.
In team fortress 2 the framerate changed
catalyst 9.5 and the best so far for source engine
15196 frames 118.939 seconds 127.76 fps ( 7.83 ms/f) 11.665 fps variability
this is on a custom demo made by me
and catalyst 9.6
15196 frames 135.555 seconds 112.10 fps ( 8.92 ms/f) 23.596 fps variability
the game is very cpu limited on my computer (e2180@3250), overclocking the card gives no framerate gain but it's intresting to see that catalyst 9.6 consumes a bit more cpu power than 9.5.
I kept 9.6 because the difference is neglijable.
Nice to see some more performance gains for Crysis . . . especially with xfire . . . but, y'know, if there was good ATI support from the developer, we wouldn't need to rely on driver releases :p
lets you do stuff like extend the start menu across multiple screens.
Ofc you play at 60FPS, and you'll get 63FPS... woooo.