Well, I was starting to think ATI had forgotten about its customers this month. I guess they where just off to a late start. Hopefully the improvements will make up for the delayed drivers.
Performance Improvements
As with most Catalyst® releases, performance has increased in various situations.
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3DMark06 CPU scores improve as much as 4.9% across all product lines
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3DMark06 HDR 2 Deep Freeze (SM3.0) test improves as much as 2%
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Call
of Duty 2 improves approximately 1.4-2% on Radeon® X1900 and Radeon®
X1800 Crossfire configurations. Gains are slightly less (1.3%) for
non-Crossfire Radeon® X1900 and Radeon® X1800 products
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FarCry
improves 2-3% on ATI Radeon® X1900 non-Crossfire configurations.
Greatest improvements result from tests with no AA and AF
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Half
Life 2 improves as much as 3.8% on Radeon® X1900 non-Crossfire
configurations. Greatest improvements result from tests with no AA and
AF
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Unreal Tournament 2004 gains 3-5% on all Radeon® X1x00 non-Crossfire configurations
Download: ATI Catalyst Drivers (Windows XP)
View: Release Notes