AMD Releases 8.921.2 RC11 Drivers For Radeon HD 7900 Series

By Nathan Kirsch

AMD has released new drivers for those that are lucky enough to own an AMD Radeon HD 7970 video card! These drivers feature a large number of performance improvements and bug fixes, so if you own a Radeon HD 7970 graphics card be sure to update. Since the AMD Radeon HD 7900 series uses the new Graphics Core Next architecture we are sure that AMD will be releasing a number of performance enhancing drivers in the months to come as they learn how to get the most from this new GPU design. Our gut tells us that a large driver update will drop in March/April just before NVIDIA gets ready to release their new Kepler GPUs with a refined core architecture. You can download the new AMD 8.921.2 RC11 drivers directly from AMD here.

XFX Radeon HD 7970 Black Edition

Performance highlights of the 8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon HD 7900 driver:

  • 8% (up to) performance improvement in Aliens vs. Predator
  • 15% (up to) performance improvement in Battleforge with Anti-Aliasing enabled
  • 3% (up to) performance improvement in Battlefield 3
  • 3% (up to) performance improvement in Crysis 2
  • 6% (up to) performance improvement in Crysis Warhead
  • 10% (up to) performance improvement in F1 2010
  • 5% (up to) performance improvement in Unigine with Anti-Aliasing enabled
  • 250% (up to) performance improvement in TessMark (OpenGL) when set to insane levels

Throughout 2012, AMD Catalyst will be a play key role in the life of the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series; it will deliver continuous performance enhancements and new feature support for the new architecture found in the AMD Radeon HD 7900 family. The AMD software development team has already identified a number of opportunities to improve the already amazing AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series.

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