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Benchmark Results: Just Cause 2 is one of those game titles that AMD has made driver improvements on over the past five months.  This is one of the reasons why you see the SAPPHIRE HD 7970 OC 3GB beating the MSI R7970 Lighting 3GB in this benchmark.  The SAPPHIRE HD 7970 OC 3GB was run using CATALYST 12.7 drivers and the MSI R7970 Lightning was run using CATALYST 12.2 drivers on the same machine. It looks like we need to update all of our cards again as the difference between CATALYST 12.2 and CATALYST 12.7 drivers is rather large in many game titles. For example we did some testing on the SAPPHIRE HD 7970 OC and at 1280x1024 got 88.90 FPS on Catalyst 12.2 drivers and when we updated to Catalyst 12.7 drivers the scores shot up to 91.65 FPS. That may not sound like much, but that 3 FPS difference really changes the dynamics of our performance charts as the results are so close together!