Futuri driver AMD Catalyst rivisti e ottimizzati

Logo_AMD_1AMD ha reso pubblico con un comunicato stampa, le principali novità introdotte con i driver Catalyst 11.1a hotfix, previsti per il 25/26 Gennaio 2011. Le release hotfix genaralmente si differenzierà da quelle standard per una serie di migliorie e ottimizzazioni varie.

I nuovi Catalyst 11.1a hotfix, introducono una serie di novità legate alle tecniche di tessellation.

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AMD implementerà l’AMD Optimized Tessellation, una soluzione che attraverso il pannello Catalyst Control Center permette di avere un controllo diretto sulle tecniche di tessellation. In questa maniera, l’utente può liberamente decidere se usare la tecnica del tessellation al massimo livello o ad un livello inferiore.

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Ci saranno ulteriori ottimizzazioni riguardo il filtro anisotropico, in modo da aumentare la qualità d’immagine. Oltre alla classica impostazione “Quality”. troveremo l’impostazione “High Quality“.

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Riportiamo di seguito le note rilasciate da AMD:


Note AMD:


 AMD Radeon HD 6900 and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series:
* 3DMark Vantage improves ~7%
* 3DMark06 improves ~3%
* Call of Duty Black Ops improves ~20% at 4xMSAA and up to 35% at 8xMSAA
* Riddick Assault on Dark Athena SSAO performance improves ~20%
* Unigine Heaven OpenGL performance improves ~10% at moderate, 30% at normal and 100% at extreme tessellation levels


AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series:
* Aliens vs. Predators improves ~9% at 2xMSAA and up to 20% at 4xMSAA
* Batman Arkham Asylum improves ~4%
* Crysis Warhead improves ~2-4%
* Metro 2033 improves ~28% at 4xMSAA


AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series:
* Battleforge DirectX 11 performance improves as much as 6%


New Tessellation Controls:
* The Catalyst Control Center includes an early prototype of some new tessellation controls. Our goal is to give users full control over the tessellation levels used in applications. The default selection “AMD Optimized” setting allows AMD, on a per application basis, to set the best level of tessellation. The intention is to help users get the maximum visual benefit of Tessellation, while minimizing the impact on performance. Currently no applications have been profiled, so the “AMD Optimized” setting will be non-operational until further notice.
* The “Use Application Settings” option gives applications full control over the Tessellation level. Users can also manually set the maximum tessellation level used by applications with the slider control
* The long term goal for the “AMD Optimized” setting is to use the Catalyst Application Profile mechanism to control the AMD recommended level of tessellation on a per application basis. AMD’s intention is to set the tessellation level such that we will not be reducing image quality in any way that would negatively impact the gaming experience.


I driver Catalyst 11.1a Hotfix li potete scaricare da qui:

Catalyst 11.1a Hotfix

 

A. Delli Santi – djlegend – HW Legend Staff

 

 


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