Good news to ATI 68xx/69xx User

[yaiko304]

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

[ERU]

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

[ik9000]

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

[Max Tractor]

The performance boost figures are compared to what previous drivers?

[MadduckUK]

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.

[Domestic_Ginger]

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

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.

[jonathan_phang]

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

[Phage]

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.

[Queelis]

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

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).

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

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).

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

[yaiko304]

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.

[duongnt]

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

[ik9000]

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

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

[Skell]

Thats some pretty big gains for a driver!

[kalniel]

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.

[Blaineoliver]

Woo, cant wait to get my drivers updated now!