Good news to ATI 68xx/69xx User

http://www.legitreviews.com/news/10268/

Catalyst 11.4 early preview:

Users should see a boost, particularly with anti-aliasing and large resolutions in numerous titles:

Up to 70% performance improvement in Civilization V
Up to 49% performance improvement in Call of Duty: Black Ops
Up to 23% performance improvement in F1 2010
Up to 21% performance improvement in Wolfenstein MP
Up to 15% performance improvement in Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X
Up to 17% performance improvement in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Up to 28% performance improvement in Metro2033
Up to 33% performance improvement in Left 4 Dead 2
Up to 26% performance improvement in FarCry 2
Up to 15% performance improvement in Crysis Warhead
Up to 50% performance improvement in Unigine Heaven
Up to 22% performance improvement in Batman: Arkham Asylum
Up to 19% performance improvement in Aliens vs. Predator

AMD offical page with download link

70% performance improvement in Civilization V is quite a jump forwards!

well that's going to settle the which graphics cards for £200 debate for a while

The performance boost figures are compared to what previous drivers?

has made dawn of war 2: retribution a hell of a lot smoother on a 5850, so there are more improvements than documented going on.

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http://www.legitreviews.com/news/10268/
Users should see a boost, particularly with anti-aliasing and large resolutions in numerous titles:

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Would be nice if anyone could post some figures. There are benchies popping up over the place showing improvements; 3Dmark11 is adding about 200 points in some cases.

The 'large resolutions' with AA showing a 70% increase could be arise from 1fps to 1.7fps!

I'm pragamatic as every 11.x driver has prevented my system from using any of windows power saving functions.

So, poor 11.3 got disowned or something? Still, might have to try these out, although, there isnt anything really wrong with the 10.12 that I'm using - hopefully will finish the game that I am on at the moment and then change after that. Hopefully there is still something there for us 5850 users :)

11.3 is OK. I tried them out to make sure that the troubles of 11.1 had been removed. They were nothing special, but didn't cause any problems either.

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Originally Posted by Domestic_Ginger

I'm pragamatic as every 11.x driver has prevented my system from using any of windows power saving functions.

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I've stopped with 10.3 (that said, I do have an aged 4830), since any later drivers up the idle memory and core clocks significantly (e.g. from 160 to 500 for the core).

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Originally Posted by Queelis

I've stopped with 10.3 (that said, I do have an aged 4830), since any later drivers up the idle memory and core clocks significantly (e.g. from 160 to 500 for the core).

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I use ATI Tray Tools to set custom 2D and 3D clockspeeds.

Just update.

My system crashed on start when ATI tray tools installed. Uninstall it everything working fine again.

With 11.4 sometimes screen freeze while i playing Dragon age 2. Haven't try other game yet.

For benchmark, it boost a little , like 10% more score in heaven dx11.

I am only interested in Civ V and that is quite a big jump. What have they done??

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Originally Posted by duongnt

I am only interested in Civ V and that is quite a big jump. What have they done??

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Unspeakable things no man should ever have to do. Now let's not talk of it again...

Thats some pretty big gains for a driver!

Well reviews always pointed out something was wrong with Civ V - initially for both nVidia and AMD, but nVidia 'fixed' it a little while back, looks like AMD are heading there as well.

Woo, cant wait to get my drivers updated now! :D