AMD Catalyst 12.11 Performance Analysis

W1zzard · Oct 17, 2012

Today AMD announced a new game bundle for their Radeon graphics cards and the new Catalyst 12.11 driver which brings performance improvements across the board. We test each card of the HD 7000 lineup in 20 games and benchmarks to verify what the new driver offers.

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Delta6326 · Oct 22, 2012

Great Review/Update! Wow that really changes some numbers! Really like the way you put it together now that put's AMD on top of some stuff, just goes to show how important software optimization really can be.

Jstn7477 · Oct 22, 2012

I'll be trying these with my HD 7950 on W8 Pro. Currently using the 12.9 Beta driver.

RejZoR · Oct 22, 2012

Can't wait for these drivers. I really miss such driver updates more often so they'd really squeeze e very drop of performance out of the cards. In the past this was quite common but these days they just make bug fixes and profile updates. And thats it.

manofthem · Oct 22, 2012

I'd say 10% for the 7870 is awesome, and 7% for 7950/70 is good looking too. I'll be trying the new release tomorrow and see what happens, that is if I can find them

Thanks W1zz, nice one!

RejZoR · Oct 22, 2012

Where can drivers be downloaded? Can't seem to find them on AMD page (yet)...

HTC · Oct 22, 2012

If these improvements don't come from image quality tampering, then congratulations AMD: you've surpassed W1zzard's expectations regarding driver related performance improvements.

reverze · Oct 22, 2012

hopefully drivers will be out for us today, gonna make alot of people happy that i advised to buy 7850 cards.

Nordic · Oct 22, 2012

My thoughts in order:
"What happened to 12.10. I am on 12.9 beta."
"Ah, a holiday driver."
Read it
"Nice" :cool:

"How the heck did they do it?"
"Why couldn't they figure out what ever it was until now?"

Rowsol · Oct 22, 2012

Impressive numbas.

reverze · Oct 22, 2012

man that must have been a sleepless night(s) of benchmarking...

Novulux · Oct 22, 2012

And here I was, just about to sell my HD 7870.
Can't wait.

t_ski · Oct 22, 2012

RejZoR said:
Where can drivers be downloaded? Can't seem to find them on AMD page (yet)...

reverze said:
hopefully drivers will be out for us today, gonna make alot of people happy that i advised to buy 7850 cards.

Please remember that the second number in the driver revision refers to the month of the year. If these are 12.11's, then they won't be available until November.

RejZoR · Oct 22, 2012

BETA will be available sooner despite the number because they don't have to wait for WHQL certificate...

Nordic · Oct 22, 2012

reverze said:
man that must have been a sleepless night(s) of benchmarking...

I believe he has it all automated.

t_ski said:
Please remember that the second number in the driver revision refers to the month of the year. If these are 12.11's, then they won't be available until November.

Learn something every day

MxPhenom 216 · Oct 22, 2012

Wow now theres really no difference in HD7970 or GTX680. Just pick your color and you going to get the same performance haha. Nice Drivers AMD.

ArchStupid · Oct 22, 2012

I don't get it...

In this review - http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/HD_7970_Matrix/26.html
The 7970 GHz Edition (vanilla) is stronger than the 680 GTX by about 3%.

But in the Catalyst review 7970 GHz Edition is about 4% weaker.

What gives?

jihadjoe · Oct 22, 2012

GJ AMD driver team. I hope whoever did this isn't among those about to be laid off.

Naito · Oct 22, 2012

I'm not much of an AMD (ATI) fan myself, but I must say I am impressed by those numbers. Will be interesting to see what AMD do with the HD8000 series.

Just a thought, though; are these gains from just massively reworked/optimized drivers or is AMD performing some sort of image/performance trickery? I mean, if it is the latter, hopefully it doesnt sacrifice anything or affect the end user.

W1zzard · Oct 22, 2012

The driver should be available later today. Got this from AMD a few minutes ago: "Regarding driver: if possible please wait for a new build. It addresses a few bugs. It should be available from AMD page later today (of course if I get it sooner via FTP I'll share it with you)."

wotevajjjj · Oct 22, 2012

awesome stuff from amd once again. The cheapest 7970 here is the gigabyte 3x one at €354 while the 680 soc is the cheapest 680 at €480.. the 7970 is faster..

kukreknecmi · Oct 22, 2012

On hexus.net they concluded that BF3 gains up to %33 on 1080p. How did they get that much of improvent, or why on TPU review isnt that much ?

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/46905-amd-catalyst-1211-benchmarked-surprising-performance-gains/?page=3

W1zzard · Oct 22, 2012

kukreknecmi said:
On hexus.net they concluded that BF3 gains up to %33 on 1080p. How did they get that much of improvent, or why on TPU review isnt that much ?

They used 8xAA they say, and probably a different map/scene.

1Kurgan1 · Oct 22, 2012

Holy cow, thats amazing if the gains that large with AA. BF3 the killer for AMD cards has bee nthe AA. Thats a massive performance leap, makes the 680 look bad, very shocked, sad that my rig is down now and won't be able to try them

exodusprime1337 · Oct 22, 2012

Just got my second 7970 yesterday.. Posted some impressive scores myself in crossfire. Can't wait to try out these graphics and put up some bigger numbers. WoooHoooo

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