ATI Catalyst Driver 6.3 Vs 6.4: 3DMark Benchmark Comparison

[rascalboy]

Objective: To find out the impact of differernt ATI Catalyst Driver on 3DMark scores.

Test System:

Opteron 146 @ 3Ghz
DFI Lanparty NF4 Expert
ATI x1800xl @ 500MHz Core/990Mhz Memory
G.skill FF @ 272 MHz
OCZ Modstream 520W

3DMark03:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y235/rascalboy/6_3_03.png

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y235/rascalboy/6_4_03.png

3DMark05:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y235/rascalboy/6_3_05.png

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y235/rascalboy/6_4_05.png

3DMark06:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y235/rascalboy/6_3_06.png

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y235/rascalboy/6_4_06.png

Conclusion:

ATI Calayst Driver 6.4 improve the score of 3DMark03,05 &06.

[MuMiXaM]

thanks for the info, but i wish the 6.4's didnt have that windows boot up graphic corruption

[eva2000]

excellent :D

[IvanAndreevich]

thanks for the info, but i wish the 6.4's didnt have that windows boot up graphic corruption
Oh so I'm not the only getting it :slap: Doesn't make any difference, it's gone after 1 second.

Pretty minor improvement, but consistent it seems.

[Daveb2012]

what about all these negitive info I keep hearing about the 6.4's? like Atitool not working at all with it. I have been waiting this week to DL them because of all the bad talk about them on this forum

[PL4YD34D]

ati techs have responded to feedback from people on the various forums and are testing for these errors that we all found. probably see a patch or new release in a few days

[Eastcoasthandle]

that's odd all ATI Tech told me was make sure I installed them properly. I had to resend my compliant.

[ugp]

Everyone is having that issue...when running benchmarks though it doesn't affect it at all...it actually improves it. I did notice an improvement as well when I ram 3DMark05.

[Lane-k]

Personally i will give a try to this one again.. but it seems the Hotfix give same gain in 3D06 &3D05 vs the 6.3/6.4.. so certainly i will stay with it before have more info... ( and i don't play Oblivion yet.. yes i know it's a shame..:D )

[cantankerous]

I wish I could play oblivion I get nothing but crashes to desktop when I have my X-fi running the game.

[ahmad]

Then disable that X-Fi :p:

BTW I do get the corruption at startup, but then, whats the problem? :stick:

You think a graphic corruption is something that is worth 1 uninstall, 2 installs, 2 restarts and a performance decrease? I seriously don't see what the issue is at all. Its not like OOH MAN LOOK AT THAT, ITS A CORRUPTEDZOR SCREENZ!!!11! THAT DOES NOTHING!@!!

Sorry, I just fail to see the problem. I like these drivers because they fix some issues I was having encoding video from my camcorder. And they improve AVIVO's image quality :)

[nicepun]

Def probs with ATiTool!! Since I'm not benching at the moment I just uninsalled ATiTool and reenabled the two ATi Startup files. We'll see what happens. I do not get that corrupt screen at startup.

[Jamo]

hmm i havnt noticed any probs with using ati tool but using the 6.4's my max stable overclock goes down to 600/1200 whereas i can clock to 648/1260 without any probs with the 6.3, at 600/1200 and the 6.4's the card just freezes on 3d mark. using radlinker to clock the card just for reference

[M.Beier]

6.2->6.4
20 loss @ 05, havnt tested 6.3

[don_vercetti]

Good comparison, but you didn't post 2 3dmark03 screenshots.

[Leverpospade]

Good comparison, but you didn't post 2 3dmark03 screenshots.

I see 2 :confused: :p:

Nice comparison, but as long as it has the windows boot bug I'll rather stick to the 6,3

[don_vercetti]

I do too. Sorry, must have not loaded or something. I did search for it.

And yeah, boot bug is a :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:.