The Latest on AMD's Upcoming Catalyst 11.a Hotfix
The Latest on AMD's Upcoming Catalyst 11.a Hotfix
Posted 01/19/2011 at 7:50am
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AMD sent out a press release detailing its upcoming Catalyst Hotfix 11.a drivers, which the company promises will bring increased performance and "a slew of new features." As it pertains to the new Radeon HD 6900 and 6800 series of cards, some of the highlights include:
- 3DMark Vantage: 7 percent improvement
- 3DMark05: 3 percent improvement
- Call of Duty: Black Ops: 20 percent improvement at 4xMSAA, up to 35 percent at 8xMSAA
- Batman Arkham Aslyum: 4 percent improvement
- Metro 2033: 28 percent improvement at 4xMSAA
AMD says the hotfix also provides some new tessellation controls with the goal of giving users full control over the tessellation levels used in applications.
According to HardOCP, the new drivers will be publicly available on January 26th.
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shams00
January 29, 2011 at 2:44am
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kholiboi @ would you like to lett me about the latest pne? how is serviceing your 6970?
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Khoiboi
January 19, 2011 at 4:08pm
I recently bought the 6970. This should make it better than the GTX 570 I assume?
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