New Features

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

• Support for New Linux Operating Systems
• Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition: Information Center Enhancement
• ATI Stream Computing Support
• SurroundView™ support

Support for New Linux Operating Systems

This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new
operating system:

• Ubuntu 8.10 support – early look

Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition: Information
Center Enhacement

This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces enhancements to the ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition – Bus bandwidth and memory bandwidth informa-
tion is now included in the Information Center.

ATI Stream Computing Support

With the release of ATI Catalyst 8.12 users can unlock the potential of accelerated
applications enabling ATI Stream technology for millions of ATI Radeon™
graphics processors worldwide

• ATI Stream computing harnesses the tremendous processing power of the
graphics processing unit (GPU) for high-performance, data-intensive compu-
tations over a wide range of scientific, business and consumer applications.
• ATI Stream technology enables the hundreds of parallel Stream cores inside
AMD graphics processors to accelerate general purpose applications. These
capabilities will allow ATI Stream-enabled programs, for a variety of different
tasks and from a growing number of software vendors, to operate with opti-
mized performance or with new functionality.

SurroundView™ support

This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux enables users to render multiple OpenGL applications across single/multiple displays.

• SurroundView™ can be enabled across a single discrete ATI Radeon™
graphics accelerator (ATI Radeon™ X1300 and higher product) and an AMD
Integrated graphics product ( ATI Radeon 1200 Series, ATI Radeon 3100
Series, ATI Radeon 3200 Series and, Radeon 3300 Series Integrated graphics)

• ATI Catalyst 8.12 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver
• ATI Catalyst 8.12 Proprietary Linux x86_64 Display Driver

• Release Notes
• ATI CATALYST 8.12 Grafiktreiber für Windows