ATI Catalyst 10.3a Driver Performance Benchmarking

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Radeon HD 5870 Test Settings

All testing was done on a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
with all the latest updates installed. All benchmarks were completed on
the desktop with no other software programs running. The Corsair
DOMINATOR memory modules were run in triple-channel mode at 1866MHz
with 8-8-8-24 timings. The ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics
cards was tested with 10.2 CATALYST and 10.3a CATALYST (“yo, Fermi, grease up and bend over” – Best Quote by AMD ever) drivers. The ASUS P6T Deluxe V2
motherboard was run using BIOS 0610 with the processor running stock
settings and Turbo enabled.

Windows 7 Drivers Used:

Intel Chipset Inf Update Program V9.1.1.1014
SoundMAX
2000B Audio Driver V6.10.2.6585 for Windows 64bit Windows 7.(WHQL)
Marvell

Yukon Gigabit Ethernet Driver V11.10.5.3 for 32/64bit Windows 7.(WHQL)

The Test System

Here is the Intel LGA 1366 Test platform:

Intel Test Platform

Component

Brand/Model

Live Pricing

Processor

Intel Core i7 975

Motherboard

ASUS P6T Deluxe V2

Memory

6GB Corsair DDR3 1866MHz

Video Card

See Below

Hard Drive

Western Digital VelociRaptor

Cooling

Titan Finrar

Power Supply

Cooler Master 1000W

Chassis

None (Open Bench)

Operating System

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit

ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB GPU-Z 0.3.9 Details:

ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB GPU-Z 0.3.9

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