ATI Catalyst Treiber 3.1

ATi hat nun nach einer längeren Wartezeit neue Catalyst Treiber veröffentlicht. Diese liegen nun in der Version 3.1 zum Download bereit. Unterstützt werden Karten ab der Radeon 7000 bis zur aktuellen Radeon 9700. Etliche Bugs sollen nun mit dieser Version der Vergangenheit angehören.

Aber auch die 3D Leistung soll sich durch den neuen Treiber verbessert haben. Dabei sind relativ große Performance Sprünge bei der Radeon9500/9700 festzustellen:

RADEON9700

Anisotropic Filtering and OpenGL performance on the RADEON 9700 series of cards is up substantially across several applications. These performance improvements include:

• A performance improvement of up to 35% at high resolutions is noticed in ChameleonMark
• A performance improvement between 2 and 7% is noticed in 3Dmark
• A performance improvement between 6 and 24% is noticed in Comanche4
• A performance improvement of 10% is noticed in Max Payne
• A performance improvement between 20 and 40% is noticed in UT2003 Flyby
• A performance improvement between 30 and 40% is noticed in IL-2 Sturmovik when Aniso or Aniso and Anti-Aliasign is enabled at the display resolution of 1600x1200
• A performance improvement between 17 and 24% is noticed in Jedi Knight II when Aniso or Aniso and Anti-Aliasign is enabled at the display resolution of 1600x1200

RADEON8500

• Anti-Aliasing scores rise 15-35% across various benchmarks
• A performance improvement between 10 and 50% is noticed in NHL2002

RADEON7500

• A performance improvement of 5% is noticed in the 3DMark2001 SE Vertex Shader test

Die kompletten Release Notes der Version 3.1 kann man hier nachlesen.