Terry Catalyst-Maker Makedon posted an interesting post @ twitter:
If we are lucky maybe we will see the new DX11 GPUs in action in Phenom II 965BE powered rigs :).Quote:
Originally Posted by Catalyst maker
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Terry Catalyst-Maker Makedon posted an interesting post @ twitter:
If we are lucky maybe we will see the new DX11 GPUs in action in Phenom II 965BE powered rigs :).Quote:
Originally Posted by Catalyst maker
I hope it's better than 9.7
"In action" was meant as previewing the DX11 GPU based cards,not RV870 specific... I never said launch RV870 or similar.
The Catalyst 9.8 are being launched at the event(as things stand right now). If cats 9.8 are not launched at the event,then they will be soon after since the preview will be on the 15th.
I took the comment in a different way- 9.7 could be a minor update- expanded .inf for DX11 cards and generally tread water OR... they could be another set of noticeable steps to fix known bugs and actively increase performance.
Do 9.8's have something special? If not, who cares...
^ lets just hope they put the GUI back, and ideally they come closer to perfecting Crossfire scaling.
They have to cook a proper GUI, both are crap. NVIDIA's control panel is way better.
Its just a horse and pony show, trying to hype up a driver that will offer nothing new like the previous million or so updates. What's important is to not have people ask about the next gen stuff but to focus on something so irrelevant as a new driver.
I want the original Control Panel.
To heck with CCC.
Seconded :up:
Interesting comment from the neoseeker's 965BE review regarding the Cats 9.8 performance on Dragon platform(AMD CPU/mobo specific):
50% more performance is a bit unrealistic IMO,but let's wait and see. The author mentions intel platform will benefit also from 9.8 Cats,but much less than the Dragon platform. Finally,AMD driver team found a time to optimize graphic drivers for a "domestic" platform.Quote:
Originally Posted by neoseeker
I think that the driver is already well optimized for Intel but weirdly enough not for AMD own CPUs. The other explanation is that I7 is so fast that it's maxing out CF rigs in more scenarios than Phenom rigs. Improving CPU bound situations in driver will result in bigger gains for AMD rigs.
Time will tell :D
AMD, stop trying to make me regret getting an i7 rig!
I don't see any Quakecon Info?
Perkam
If AT staff has the HW in hands,then the cards are pretty much ready.But in reality the chip may need another stepping,so nothing is definite. But the info is welcome,thanks bingo13!
@bingo13: I have to reminde u bout ur NDA (im very shure u signed one) :D
Wonderful disclosure.
hmm
http://www.nordichardware.com/news,9783.htmlQuote:
AMD has shipped the first samples of the Evergreen family to selected partners and reviewers
^ someone who is eating the donut?
still no leaks/uploads? :(
Wait a bit...
http://img5.imagebanana.com/img/gexufiid/amd.jpg
Teasing is bad... it can lead to deception... you better show us the real deal or GTFO :D
Its has been know quiet a while that there will be a pr event on sep 10th. So no teasing @ all.
http://www.nordichardware.com/news,9672.html
Quote:
As you may have heard AMD is planning a launch in September, with a pre-launch event on September 10th.
Pre-launch, PR event... that's teasing ;)
Maybe theres something even earlier ;)
Odd that cat 9.8 hasn't been leaked yet.
Mr. Makedon posted this in his latest message:
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Originally Posted by Terry Makedon
anyone tested those 9.8 divers from the link above ?
^ they look like they're about the right size, I'll try them out tomorrow if there aren't any complaints by then.
They're on an official AMD blog and from an AMD server. I'd imagine they're trustable, lol.
Edit:
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/7458/cat98.png
Seems to be working.
no change in GUI, so no rush from me :p:
Looking good.Quote:
With five months of ATI Catalyst driver blogs under our belt, we are seeing a growing engagement from the community via this blog site. Please keep up the great comments and suggestions and we will endeavor to answer as many as we can. So, without further ado – let me introduce the ATI Catalyst 9.8 Driver Release!
Game Optimizations: ATI Catalyst™ 9.8 Driver
Our test system configuration is: AMD Phenom II 940 (3.0GHz) processor Asus M3A79-T(790) motherboard 4GB DDR2-800 5-5-5-18 memory Windows VISTA Ultimate SP1 64bit
This month we are seeing a massive performance increase with a whole host of games as compared to the ATI Catalyst 9.7 driver. Detailed release notes are available for most of the game optimizations; here are the highlights:
* Battleforge DirectX 10/DirectX 10.1 performance improves of up to 50% with the largest gains in configurations using ATI CrossFireX™ technology.
* Company of Heroes DirectX 10 performance improves of up to 77%.
* Crysis DirectX 10 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode improves of up to 10% and quad mode performance improves of up to 34%.
* Crysis Warhead DirectX 10 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode improves of up to 7% and quad mode performance improves of up to 69%.
* Far Cry 2 DirectX 10 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode improves of up to 50% and quad mode performance improves of up to 88%.
* Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. DirectX 10/DirectX 10.1 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode improves of up to 40% and with quad mode performance improving of up to 60%.
* UnigineTropics OpenGL performance improvements of up to 20%.
* UnigineTropics DirectX 10 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in quad mode improvements of up to 20%.
* World in Conflict DirectX 10 performance improvements of up to by 10%.
It’s fitting that last weekend AMD was in attendance at Quakecon 2009 in Dallas,Texas where the world’s most prolific OpenGLsupporters gathered for 4 days of ‘peace, love and rockets,’ that we are announcing support for OpenGL 3.1 and the following details:
This release of the ATI Catalyst driver provides OpenGL 3.1 extension support. The following is a list of OpenGL 3.1 features and extensions added in ATI Catalyst 9.8:
* Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.30 and 1.40.
* Instanced rendering with a per-instance counter accessible to vertex shaders (GL ARB draw instanced).
* Data copying between buffer objects (GL EXT copy buffer).
* Primitive restart (NV primitive restart). Because client enable/disable no longer exists in OpenGL 3.1, the PRIMITIVE RESTART state has become server state, unlike the Nvidia extension where it is client state. As a result, the numeric values assigned to PRIMITIVE RESTART and PRIMITIVE RESTART INDEX differ from the NV versions of those tokens. o At least 16 texture image units must be accessible to vertex shaders, in addition to the 16 already guaranteed to be accessible to fragment shaders.
* Texture buffer objects (GL ARB texture buffer object).
* Rectangular textures (GL ARB texture rectangle). o Uniform buffer objects (GL ARB uniform buffer object).
* SNORM texture component formats.
And last but surely not least, my favorite community: ATI Catalyst™ 9.8 driver for Linux!
Support for new Linux operating systems
This release of ATI Catalyst driver for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
* RHEL 4.8 production support
* Ubuntu 9.04 production support
ATI Catalyst™ Control Center - Linux Edition support for RandR 1.2 This release of the ATI Catalyst driver for Linux introduces ATI Catalyst Control Center - Linux Edition support for the RandR 1.2 extension API. The following new features are now available in the ATI Catalyst Control Center - Linux Edition Display Manager:
* Display rotation
* Multiple display arrangement and desktop sizing
Soon I will try them!
I can test FC2 improvement and Crysis, for the rest I don't have these games.
Sound unreal, lets see it in practise :D
Nice to hear Crossfire getting improvements!
OK I have some numbers ....
Quake III - no improvement :p:
Crysis Warhead - visible improvement! It feels much smoother without hiccups when textures are loaded.
Old Cat 9.7 at this spot was 42-44 FPS (forgot to take sceen)
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9...sisiicat98.jpg
Cat 9.8 :rolleyes: 48-51 FPS
Another spot:
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/5789/crysiscat97.png
Cat. 9.7
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9807/crysiscat98.png
Cat. 9.8 :rolleyes: