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ATI Catalyst 10.3a Driver Performance Benchmarking

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: Catalyst 10.3 beta drivers
Date: Wed, Mar 17, 2010 - 12:00 PM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. (High Altitude Warfare eXperimental squadron) is an aerial warfare video game developed by Ubisoft Romania and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows. It was released in United States on March 6, 2009 and features Microsoft DirectX 10.1 game play.

Tom Clancy HAWX

The game has a built-in benchmark that is very tough on video cards! 

Tom Clancy HAWX

For this game VSync was turned off, but Antialiasing was turned on and set to 8x for better image quality.

Tom Clancy HAWX

All of the DirectX 10 options were set to high including Ambient occlusion (SSAO) on both the NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards.  The game was patched with update v1.2, which was the most current patch.

Tom Clancy HAWX Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. when run in DirectX 10 mode with AA enabled. ATI claimed that CATALYST 10.3a drivers improves performance up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products with this driver and our results showed a 19% performance improvement! These are impressive benchmark results!

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Review Index
Page 1 - ATI Brings The Hurt To NVIDIA With CATALYST 10.3
Page 2 - Radeon HD 5870 Test Settings
Page 3 - Batman: Arkham Asylum
Page 4 - Resident Evil 5
Page 5 - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Page 6 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 7 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 8 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 9 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions