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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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3DMark Vantage
3DMark Vantage is the new industry standard PC gaming performance benchmark from Futuremark, newly designed for Windows Vista and DirectX10. It includes two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, and support for the latest hardware. 3DMark Vantage is based on a completely new rendering engine, developed specifically to take full advantage of DirectX10, the new graphics API from Microsoft.
The Extreme settings were used for testing, so a resolution of 1920x1200 was used.
Benchmark Results: ATI claimed that CATALYST 10.3a
drivers improves performance up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
products over the previous driver. Our results showed a 1.4% performance
improvement, but if you look back to the original 9.9 drivers we used to benchmark the Radeon HD 5870 you'll notice that we have gained nearly 1000 3DMarks by driver updates alone. Having an 11% performance improvement in 3DMark Vantage scores over the past six months by just updating your driver is nice to see!
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| Review Index |
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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 |
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