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AMD releases its Catalyst 10.3

by on25 March 2010

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Bunch of performance improvements

AMD has finally released its final Catalyst 10.3 driver with WHQL certification. The new features are pretty much the same as those in the preview driver released a week ago, but this time there are bunch of performance improvements as well. The new Catalyst 10.3 supports HD 2000, 3000, 4000 and HD 5000 series for both the Radeon ahd Mobility Radeon products.

The features that are well known from the preview driver include support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses, Display Bezel Compensation, Per-Display Color Adjust, Improved Display Configuration switching and easy toggling between cloned and extended desktop modes.

The performance improvements are mostly for ATI Radeon HD 5000 and HD 4800 series products and include games like Aliens vs. Predator, Battleforge, Devil May Cry 4,  S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, Crysis and Crysis Warhead, Far Cry 2 , and the performance is up by 2 to 10 percent in most cases. However, Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X whichi is up to 15 percent faster on HD 5970 and up by 20 percent faster on HD 5800 series, while DIRT 2 is improved by 30 percent on the HD 5970 and up to 20 percent on HD 5800 and HD 5700 series.

You can check out the full release notes here, while the driver can be found here depending on your OS.


Last modified on 25 March 2010
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