AMD rilascia i driver Catalyst 11.4

AMD nella giornata odierna ha reso disponibili i nuovi driver del mese di aprile chiamati 11.4.

I nuovi driver sono supportati dalle serie di schede video HD2000 fino alle piu’ recenti HD6000.

Nella suddetta release non mancano migliorie al tool AMD VISION Engine Control Center, oltre che all’AMD Catalyst Control Center. Ci sono anche novità dal versante OpenCL e incrementi di performance in applicazioni 3D su tutta la serie HD6000 e HD5000 sia in scheda singola sia in configurazioni multi GPU.

Release note:

Enhancements to the AMD VISION Engine Control Center / AMD Catalyst Control Center:

• New task based Display Management controls.
• Simplifies the configuration of displays and display settings.
• New Eyefinity setup group.
• Setting up an Eyefinity group has never been easier.
• AMD Catalyst update notification (found within the Information Center).
• This feature notifies users that new AMD Catalyst software packages are available.

GPU Compute enhancements:

The OpenCL runtime (included in AMD Catalyst 11.4) includes performance enhancements supporting zero-copy on APUs and increased performance for PCIe transfers between a CPU and discrete GPU.

Performance highlights:

The AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series of products will see the following performance gains:

• Call of Duty Black Ops – gains of up to 15% with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering on single GPU configurations;
• Battleforge – gains of up to 15% with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering on single and multiple GPU configurations;
• Batman Arkham Asylum – gains of up to 20% with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering on single and multiple GPU configurations;
• Aliens vs. Predator – gains of up to 8% with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering on single and multiple GPU configurations;
• Civilization 5 – gains of up to 15% on single and multiple GPU configurations;
• Far Cry 2 – gains of up to 6% on single and multiple GPU configurations;
• Just Cause 2 – gains of up to 9% on single and multiple GPU configurations;
• Lost Planet 2 – gains of up to 10% on single and multiple GPU configurations.

Resolved issue highlights:

• The GPU no longer shows high GPU usage after when running Firefox 4 with hardware acceleration enabled.
• Bioshock no longer displays random tearing and screen corruption with Vsync and MLAA enabled.
• Water textures no longer flicker in Two Worlds II in Crossfire mode.
• Bulletstorm lightshafts no longer appear broken when running on a HD 6970 series product.
• Bulletstorm no longer displays random texture corruption when running in Crossfire mode.
• FI 2010 no longer slows down intermittently when in Crossfire mode.
• PowerDVD no longer crashes if Crossfire is enabled / disabled during playback of a BD title.
• Running the Heaven benchmark no longer displays graphics corruption during DirectX 11 tests.

Highlights of the Linux AMD Catalyst™ 11.4 release include:

This release of AMD Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems Ubuntu 11.04 support (early look) SLED/SLES 10 SP4 support (early look) RHEL 5.6 support (production).

Il download dei driver è disponibile a questo indirizzo o nella nostra sezione download.

Enrico Neglia – okorop – Hwlegend Staff