AMD ha lanzado antes de lo esperado sus nuevos controladores gráficos ATI Catalyst 11.8 WHQL, los que llegan a poco tiempo de los Catalyst 11.7 WHQL y los Catalyst 11.8 Preview lanzados el pasado 27 de julio. Esta nueva entrega con certificación WHQL brinda soporte para GPU AMD Radeon, AMD Accelerated processing units (APU) y chipset AMD con video integrado y algunas mejoras importantes de rendimiento en varios juegos. También se ha mejorado la integración con AMD Overdrive para el overclock de GPU y CPU a través del AMD Vision Control Center.
Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.8 Windows release include:
New Features
- AMD Overdrive has been enhanced to include both CPU and GPU over-clocking controls within the AMD Vision Control Center
- CPU over-clocking is only supported on AMD Black edition CPUs
Performance Highlights
- Improves performance up to 10% in Crysis 2 DirectX 11 version for both non-Anti-Aliasing, and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
- Improves performance up to 8% in Fear 3 DirectX 11 version with application enabled Anti-Aliasing on the
AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series- Improves performance up to 30% when AMD’s Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA) is enabled through the
Catalyst™ Control Center on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series- Improves performance up to 20% in Call of Duty Black Operations for single GPU and Multi-GPU configurations on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
AMD Catalyst 11.8 WHQL (Windows 7/Vista 32-bit)
AMD Catalyst 11.8 WHQL (Windows XP 32-bit)
AMD Catalyst 11.8 WHQL (Windows 7/Vista 64-bit)
AMD Catalyst 11.8 WHQL (Windows XP 64-bit)