Posted on Wednesday, June 18 2008 @ 22:39 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
AMD has released the ATI Catalyst 8.6 drivers, you can grab them
over here. Catalyst 8.6 brings triple and quad CrossFire support for OpenGL games, custom adaptive AA filters in OpenGL games and performance enhancements in several games and benchmarks.
3DMark Vantage:10 to 15% gains across all Radeon™ HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx
products, with larger gains in specific cases.
Call of Duty 4: Performance increases across all Radeon™ HD 3xxx and HD
2xxx products, with gains as large as 35% in specific maps.
Call of Juarez DX10: Performance increases between 2 and 9% across all HD
3xxx and HD 2xxx products
Company of Heroes (DX10 version): Performance increases between 4 and 10%
across HD 36xx and HD 34xx products.
Lost Planet (DX10 version): Performance increases by 1 or 2 fps across all
HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, creating in some cases up to 20% increase.
Lost Planet (DX9 version): Performance increases between 2 and 20% across
all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products
Prey OpenGL: 3-5% gains across HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.
Quake 4 OpenGL: Up to 8% increase across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.
Shadermark 2.1: Minor improvements across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx
products, with the largest gains appearing on HD 3650 (up to 9%)
ViewPerf 10: Substantial performance improvements across several of the
sub-tests, with the largest gains in ugnx (up to 55%), catia (up to 17%) and
tcvis (up to 10%) across all of the HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.
