Any and all ATI graphics cards owners should take note that a new driver dropped late yesterday from the crew over at AMD. The latest driver is Catalyst 8.7 and there is a version for both Windows and Linux users that has a good number of fixes and improvements as well as some CCC enhancements. This version does include ATI's Folding@Home information, so if you are folding be sure to check it out and be sure to support Team #38296, which is the Legit Reviews Folding team!
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst:
- 3DMark Vantage: Performance increases of up to 20% is noticed in the Performance Preset on single card configured systems when using ATI Radeon™ HD 36xx or ATI Radeon HD 34xx products
- Company of Heroes DX10: Performance increases of 3% to 12% is noticed in specific maps on single card configured systems when using either an ATI Radeon HD 48xx, ATI Radeon HD 38xx, or an ATI Radeon HD 36xx product
- Lost Planet DX10: Performance increases of 4% to 15% is noticed in specific maps on single card configured systems when using either an ATI Radeon HD 48xx, ATI Radeon HD 38xx, or an ATI Radeon HD 36xx product
- <all Of Duty 4 DX9: Performance increases of up to 4% in specific maps is noticed on single card configured systems when using an ATI Radeon HD 48xx product
- Lost Planet DX9: CrossFire scaling improves up to 1.7x and performance increases up to 80% across all Radeon products when AA and AF is enabled