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    New AMD performance drivers (12.7 beta)

    AMD is seriously pushing its new 12.7 beta drivers. And from the benchmarks they're looking impressive!

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    Performance improvements in 12.7 Beta vs. GPU launch drivers

    Batman: Arkham City (Up to 65% faster on the AMD Radeon™ HD 7970)
    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Up to 55% faster on the AMD Radeon™ HD 7700 Series)
    Total War: Shogun 2 (Up to 17% faster with the AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series)
    DiRT® 3 (Up to 7% faster with the AMD Radeon™ HD 7800 Series)

    http://blogs.amd.com/play/2012/06/28/the-new-catalyst/

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    Re: New AMD performance drivers (12.7 beta)

    Nice! VCE at last, openCL acceleration for handbrake, zip etc. (and GIMP! yay)

    edit: Oo and MS and SSAA in CCC for Diablo 3.. I don't normally skip to beta's, but this has so many things I was looking for...
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    Re: New AMD performance drivers (12.7 beta)

    The tone of the blog is really positive. It sounds like the new development people at AMD want to make the cards something more than just a (usually) cheaper alternative to NVIDIA.

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    Re: New AMD performance drivers (12.7 beta)

    Wow, thats what am talking about... Think am ready to make my purchase soon at this rate... i want more vce or/and opnecl options

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    Re: New AMD performance drivers (12.7 beta)

    Batman: Arkham City (Up to 65% faster on the AMD Radeon™ HD 7970)

    LOL I wonder what settings that is on @ 2560 Anand reports an improvement of < 4%.

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    Re: New AMD performance drivers (12.7 beta)

    They give the settings quite clearly here:

    http://blogs.amd.com/play/files/2012...provements.png

    edit: Also AMD states it's a comparison with the GPU's original release drivers, while anandtech compares different settings with the (then) current stable drivers.

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