Rilasciati i nuovi driver AMD 11.1 whql

AMD nella giornata odierna ha rilasciato i nuovi driver Catalyst 11.1

Come da consetudine da 3 anni a questa parte ogni mese escono i driver certificati per le schede video AMD Radeon sia in versione desktop sia mobile. I nuovi Catalyst presentano oltre al pieno supporto alle open gl 4.1 per tutte le schede video HD5x00 e HD6x00 una nuova veste grafica del Catalyst Control Center denominato CCC2.

Vediamo ora le note del produttore fornite a corredo dei driver:

The new Catalyst Control Center

The new Catalyst Control Center enables a simplified user experience to help users get the most out of their AMD product

• Easily enable 3D settings to enhance game image quality
• Setup multiple displays to increase productivity
• Adjust power settings to increase battery life

Supports two unique views – designed for mainstream and advanced users

User Interface dynamically updates based on available AMD hardware

Support for OpenGL 4.1

New features introduced in OpenGL 4.1

• Full compatibility with OpenGL ES 2.0 APIs for easier porting between mobile and desktop platforms
• The ability to query and load a binary for shader program objects to save re-compilation time
• The capability to bind programs individually to programmable stages for programming flexibility
• 64-bit floating-point component vertex shader inputs for higher geometric precision
• Multiple viewports for a rendering surface for increased rendering flexibility

Performance highlights:

F1 2010:

• Performance increases up to 12% on AMD Radeon™ HD 6900 and AMD Radeon™ HD 6800 Series single card configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.
• Performance increases up to 10% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single card configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.

Left 4 Dead 2:

• Performance increases up to 17% on AMD Radeon™ HD 6800 Series single and Crossfire configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.
• Performance increases up to 8% on AMD Radeon™ HD 6900 Series single configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.

Di seguito le note fornite a corredo con i driver AMD Catalyst 11.1a Hotfix:

• Performance improvements for AMD Radeon™ HD 6900 & AMD Radeon HD 6800  series graphics cards
• AMD Catalyst Control Center – New Tessellation controls
  • Gives users control over the tessellation levels used in applications
• AMD Catalyst AI Texture Filtering updates
  • The High Quality setting remains unchanged: This setting provides reference quality filtering from AMD hardware
  • The Quality setting now matches the High Quality setting in all respects but one: it enables an optimization that limits tri-linear anisotropic filtering to areas surrounding texture mipmap level transitions, while doing bilinear anisotropic filtering elsewhere. This optimization offers a way to adjust filtering performance without visibly affecting image quality
  • The Performance setting has also been updated. It now provides a smooth filtering option that is designed to eliminate most shimmering while preserving the detail provided by anisotropic filtering

I driver sono disponibili per Windows XP, Vista e 7 in versione X64 bit e X86, son supportate tutte le schede grafiche della famiglia HD2000 fino alle piu’ recenti.

Il download dei Driver compreso il Catalyst control Center è disponibile a questo indirizzo.

Enrico Neglia – okorop -Hwlegend Staff