5870 owners: Catalyst 10.6 Beta is FAST

[Hondacity]

no gain at all...lol

[zalbard]

I've never seen a deviation of nearly 100 3DMarks between runs.

For some reason CPU score went up by quite a lot (comparing to GPU score increase) for the second run.

[Eastcoasthandle]

For some reason CPU score went up by quite a lot (comparing to GPU score increase) for the second run.

Yeah, I was going to edit my post to reflect the separate GPU/CPU scores but you already pointed it out. In any case I've never had deviations that high between runs using the same drivers.

[XSAlliN]

Who "still" plays Crysis anyway?! Was decent for SP, yet nothing special in terms of game-play, only graphics... and MP's not even worth mentioning. Unless there's an innovative new feature, monthly driver updates aren't worth mentioning at News section. There is a driver section just for that, yet few people care this days and I see their point.

[initialised]

Different story for Crossfire:

10.5



10.6

[donitsi]

Different story for Crossfire:

10.5

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10.6

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Nice, almost an increase of 2k points

[saaya]

10% boost almost... not bad...
but 3fps in avp... howd you even notice that...

did anybody check what max res and max aa setting is still playable with the old vs the new drivers?
cause thats where driver boosts really make sense... if i can up the aa one notch or min fps going from 10s to 20s... THATS something worth updating the driver for imo...
if i get 3 extra fps at the same res and aa setting... pff... who cares? not even worth the time to download and install... :P

[initialised]

For some reason CPU score went up by quite a lot (comparing to GPU score increase) for the second run.

like I said, negligible gains on single card, CPU variation is probably noise.

[damha]

From the users of XS now, single card only Crysis improvement. Dual CF massive vantage boost and crysis runs smoother.

I wonder why ATI isn't going around claiming a Big Bang, this much improvement in CF is nuts.

[Loque]

Who "still" plays Crysis anyway?! Was decent for SP, yet nothing special in terms of game-play, only graphics... and MP's not even worth mentioning. Unless there's an innovative new feature, monthly driver updates aren't worth mentioning at News section. There is a driver section just for that, yet few people care this days and I see their point.

http://www.crymod.com/portal.php

[dinos22]

wow big change

WTF ATI where did this come from in vantage eeeeek

[Mungri]

Improvements to crossfire are awesome, its already so awesome that anymore speed boosts are like extra awesome.

2x 5770 are currently performing around 20-33% faster than a single 5870, and more than 100% faster than a single 5770 in some current, games and benchmarks with the latest drivers, if there are even more performance boosts to be had that that is just, well, AWESOME!!!!1111!!!!!

[Dresdenboy]

Maybe the 3DMark shaders were no target for optimization, just XFire in general and some games.

[initialised]

wow big change

WTF ATI where did this come from in vantage eeeeek

I saw X1000 point gain on GTX480 SLi with 257.15s. The old anti-CF & SLi arguments are getting so last century!

197.55


257.15:

[madcho]

Until 2 GPUs are set by software, it's not for me.

And Avivo video converter is not anymore in drivers ( 10.5 ), i want to covert all my video to H264 and don't found something really good.
Power director 8 don't use Ati's GPU to encode in H264, and i have huge number of files to batch. ( Arround 1.8TB )

( Q9550 & 5870 & 8GB DDR2 & 7 in 64bits ).

Is avivo video converter again in driver again in 10.6 ?

[Kej]

Until 2 GPUs are set by software, it's not for me.

And Avivo video converter is not anymore in drivers ( 10.5 ), i want to covert all my video to H264 and don't found something really good.
Power director 8 don't use Ati's GPU to encode in H264, and i have huge number of files to batch. ( Arround 1.8TB )

( Q9550 & 5870 & 8GB DDR2 & 7 in 64bits ).

Is avivo video converter again in driver again in 10.6 ?

If you have a look at game.amd.com under the download page for Catalyst
Control Center, you will find the Avivo Video Converter at the bottom of the
page, filed under Additional Downlads, as a separate download.

[dpa]

I think its wierd, after one 9months we suddenly see a 10% boost in Crossfire with 5870..? and, that is right after nvidia launched its new driver for fermi (fermi is 1month old..)

[massman]

Just like overclockers, vendors have backups to mislead their opponents

[BenchZowner]

Or just started to fiddle with nasty optimizations.
Let's get back to the non-rendered objects era...

[BenchZowner]

Let's take a look at the Vantage scores from both AMD & nVIDIA the last few months... they can squeeze 20% more performance out of a single card in Vantage and they got max 5% in total in the hottest games of 2009-2010 ?

[Loque]

I think there would be a lot more performance increases if game devs focused on optimizing their games to perform better via patches than having the ATI/nVidia driver team handle countless game optimizations..

Games are released and rarely have any patch to improve performance, no wonder since most of these games are "port and forget" kind of release..

[BenchZowner]

Of course developer game engine patching will show the biggest gains possible, but they don't do it ( because they don't want to or they just can't, there are several cr*ppy coders out there )

[Mungri]

Or just started to fiddle with nasty optimizations.
Let's get back to the non-rendered objects era...

Anything that makes my cards perform better without any loss of visual quality is good news to me thanks.

[BenchZowner]

It's fine for me as well, as long as it's not impacting the image quality at all.

[aztec]

I doubt that many people on this forum still use XP as primary OS and Win7 64bit driver is not available.

I'm still on XP x64. No hugely compelling reason to go 7 yet for me, until I build a new rig & GPU.