Performance Improvement

As with most Catalyst® releases, performance has increased in various situations.

Improved shader compiler and transform engine optimizations have led to many significant performance gains in OpenGL applications across the entire Radeon® X1000 series of products. These include:

• Doom 3 performance improves as much as 6.5%
• Quake 4 (v1.2 or higher) performance improves as much as 18%
• Chronicles of Riddick performance improves as much as 20%. Average improvements of 5-10% are commonly seen
• Prey performance improves as much as 16%

Optimizations made to ATI's graphics memory manager have led to significant gains in DirectX applications that make heavy use of graphics memory on 256MB ATI graphics cards:

• 3DMark06 performance improves as much as 22% on single ATI Radeon® X1000 series cards with 256MB of graphics memory at 1280x1024 and higher when anti-aliasing is enabled. The largest gains are found on the ATI Radeon® X1800 series and ATI Radeon® X1900 series of products
• Call of Duty 2 performance improves as much as 30% on single ATI Radeon® X550 cards or higher with 256MB of video memory at 1280x1024 and higher when anti-aliasing enabled. The largest gains are found on the ATI Radeon® X1800 series and ATI Radeon® X1900 series of products

Download:

• ATI CATALYST 6.8 [Windows 2000/XP] (34,7 MB)
• ATI CATALYST 6.8 [Windows XP x64] (37,1 MB)
• ATI CATALYST 6.8 [Windows XP Media Center Edition] (34,7 MB)
• ATI CATALYST 6.8 Mobility mit CCC* [Windows XP] (33,6 MB)
• ATI CATALYST 6.8 Mobility Kompatibilitätsprüfung (0,66 MB)


• ATI CATALYST 6.8 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows XP SP2] (36,6)
• ATI CATALYST 6.8 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows XP x64] (37,1)


• CATALYST Uninstaller

• ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Display Drivers for XFree86 / X. Org Version 8.28.8 (52,5 MB)
• ATI Proprietary Linux x86-64 Display Driver for XFree86 / X.Org Version 8.28.8 (52,5 MB)

• ATI Avivo H.264 Informationen
• CCC* Alternative : Ray Adams' ATI Tray Tools


• Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
• Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 x86
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 x64