Chriss-FIN-
21-02-2010, 19:30
Actually 10.2 are few days old already, but seems that it has quite many crossfire updates:
Catalyst 10.2
- Crossfire profile – Per-game Crossfire profiles are being moved out of the drivers, so that AMD can distribute out-of-band profile updates.
- CrossfireX rearchitecture - Certain parts of AMD’s multi-GPU code has been moved from the 3D driver to another driver component; this segmentation is largely to benefit Fuzion integrated CPU/GPUs later this year.
- Ultra Low Power State – This feature for lower-idling on Crossfire slave cards has been in the entire 5000 series. However it’s only being enabled across the board starting with this release.
- Crossfire Eyefinity – Eyefinity now works with all Crossfire configurations, not just on the 5970..
- DisplayPort Audio – The 5000 series is now capable of outputting audio over the DisplayPort in accordance with the DisplayPort standard.
Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.2:
- DiRT 2 – Overall performance improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970, ATI
Radeon™ HD 5800 series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series products
- Battleforge – CrossFire ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 performance improves up to 6%
- Unigine Heaven – DirectX 9 CrossFire performance has improved significantly on
ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 and ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series products
- The Chronicles of Riddick – Assault on Dark Athena – Overall performance on
ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 improves up to 4%
Also i read from many places that 10.2 should increase also fps at bad company 2 :) not tested yet by me...
Full release notes (pdf) -> LINK (http://www.google.fi/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=7&ved=0CCQQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ati-forum.de%2Findex.php%3Fpage%3DAttachment%26attachm entID%3D2619%26h%3D4daf1fd6b98880c488f8641d123df1f 76fec4f31&rct=j&q=the+saboteur+catalyst+10.2&ei=H_x7S7KhJtHy-Qb95tjiBQ&usg=AFQjCNGQx3R0Koi15eWpFlBSze0KKxrphA)
ATI Catalyst™ version 10.2 downloads -> LINK (http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx)
Coming Catalyst 10.3
- Catalyst Mobility – AMD will once again be releasing Catalyst drivers for most Mobility GPUs.
- Eyefinity Bezel Correction – Eyefinity setups can finally be adjusted to compensate for the space occupied by monitor bezels.
- Eyefinity Per Display Controls – Per display color correction, particularly useful for mismatched monitors.
- Eyefinity Multiple Groups
- Eyefinity Display Configuration Switching
- 3D Stereo driver hooks – AMD is implementing some low-level hooks to help 3rd-party 3D displays work with Radeon cards.
Catalyst 10.2
- Crossfire profile – Per-game Crossfire profiles are being moved out of the drivers, so that AMD can distribute out-of-band profile updates.
- CrossfireX rearchitecture - Certain parts of AMD’s multi-GPU code has been moved from the 3D driver to another driver component; this segmentation is largely to benefit Fuzion integrated CPU/GPUs later this year.
- Ultra Low Power State – This feature for lower-idling on Crossfire slave cards has been in the entire 5000 series. However it’s only being enabled across the board starting with this release.
- Crossfire Eyefinity – Eyefinity now works with all Crossfire configurations, not just on the 5970..
- DisplayPort Audio – The 5000 series is now capable of outputting audio over the DisplayPort in accordance with the DisplayPort standard.
Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.2:
- DiRT 2 – Overall performance improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970, ATI
Radeon™ HD 5800 series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series products
- Battleforge – CrossFire ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 performance improves up to 6%
- Unigine Heaven – DirectX 9 CrossFire performance has improved significantly on
ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 and ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series products
- The Chronicles of Riddick – Assault on Dark Athena – Overall performance on
ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 improves up to 4%
Also i read from many places that 10.2 should increase also fps at bad company 2 :) not tested yet by me...
Full release notes (pdf) -> LINK (http://www.google.fi/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=7&ved=0CCQQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ati-forum.de%2Findex.php%3Fpage%3DAttachment%26attachm entID%3D2619%26h%3D4daf1fd6b98880c488f8641d123df1f 76fec4f31&rct=j&q=the+saboteur+catalyst+10.2&ei=H_x7S7KhJtHy-Qb95tjiBQ&usg=AFQjCNGQx3R0Koi15eWpFlBSze0KKxrphA)
ATI Catalyst™ version 10.2 downloads -> LINK (http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx)
Coming Catalyst 10.3
- Catalyst Mobility – AMD will once again be releasing Catalyst drivers for most Mobility GPUs.
- Eyefinity Bezel Correction – Eyefinity setups can finally be adjusted to compensate for the space occupied by monitor bezels.
- Eyefinity Per Display Controls – Per display color correction, particularly useful for mismatched monitors.
- Eyefinity Multiple Groups
- Eyefinity Display Configuration Switching
- 3D Stereo driver hooks – AMD is implementing some low-level hooks to help 3rd-party 3D displays work with Radeon cards.