New Features

This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:

• ATI Catalyst™ support for DirectCompute 10.1
• OpenGL 3.2 extension support

ATI Catalyst™ support for DirectCompute 10.1

This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides full support for DirectCompute 10.1 for the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4700 Series for both single card and ATI CrossFireX™ supported configurations.

OpenGL 3.2 extension support

This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides support for OpenGL 3.2 extension support on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series. The following is a list of OpenGL™ 3.2 features and extensions added in ATI Catalyst™ 9.12:

• Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.50
• BGRA vertex component ordering (GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra)
• Drawing commands allowing modification of the base vertex index
  (GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex)
• Shader fragment coordinate convention control
  (GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions)
• Provoking vertex control (GL_ARB_provoking_vertex)
• Seamless cube map filtering (GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map)
• Multisampled textures and texture samplers for specific sample locations
  (GL_ARB_texture_multisample)
• Fragment depth clamping (GL_ARB_depth_clamp)
• Geometry shaders (GL_ARB_geometry_shader4)
• Fence sync objects (GL_ARB_sync)
• transform_feedback2
• texture_cubemap_array

Performance Improvements

The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 9.12:

• 3DMark Vantage – overall performance improves as much as 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 and ATI Radeon HD 5700 series products. GT1 – Jane Nash performance improves as much as 15% and FT4 – GPU Cloth improves up to 15%
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat – Performance improves as much as 6% on single card configurations

• ATI Catalyst 9.12 Display Driver [Windows 7 32-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 9.12 Display Driver [Windows 7 64-Bit]


• ATI Catalyst 9.12 Display Driver [Windows Vista 32-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 9.12 Display Driver [Windows Vista 64-Bit]


• ATI Catalyst 9.12 Display Driver [Windows XP 32-Bit / MCE]
• ATI Catalyst 9.12 Display Driver [Windows XP 64-Bit]

• ATI Catalyst 9.12 Mobility Kompatibilitätsprüfung

• ATI Catalyst 9.12 Chipset Southbridge/AHCI/Raid Tool [Windows 7 & Vista]
• ATI Catalyst 9.12 Chipset Southbridge/AHCI/Raid Tool [Windows XP]

• Release Notes Catalyst 9.12
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1