ATI Catalyst 8.6 Release

[madmossy]

Just a heads up, ATI just released cat 8.6 so might see some improvements to 48x0 performance

Vista x64
http://ati.amd.com/support/common-vista64.html

Vista x32
http://ati.amd.com/support/common-vista32.html

XP
http://ati.amd.com/support/radeonx-xp.html

Looks like some improvements to 3dMark Vantage, CoD4 and QuadFire improvements/support

[junkun13]

thank you!

[003]

You for got XP x64:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ca...4/radeonx-xp64

[madmossy]

You for got XP x64:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ca...4/radeonx-xp64

Didnt forget :P just didnt think many people used xp64 anymore :P

[003]

They do, for future reference.

EDIT:
Take a look at the change log! These drivers look killer for HD3000 and HD2000 card owners!! Still no HD4000 support, though.

[day187]

Performance Improvements

The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™.

* 3DMark Vantage:10 to 15% gains across all Radeon™ HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, with larger gains in specific cases.
* Call of Duty 4: Performance increases across all Radeon™ HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, with gains as large as 35% in specific maps.
* Call of Juarez DX10: Performance increases between 2 and 9% across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products
* Company of Heroes (DX10 version): Performance increases between 4 and 10% across HD 36xx and HD 34xx products.
* Lost Planet (DX10 version): Performance increases by 1 or 2 fps across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, creating in some cases up to 20% increase.
* Lost Planet (DX9 version): Performance increases between 2 and 20% across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products
* Prey OpenGL: 3-5% gains across HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.
* Quake 4 OpenGL: Up to 8% increase across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.
* Shadermark 2.1: Minor improvements across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, with the largest gains appearing on HD 3650 (up to 9%)
* ViewPerf 10: Substantial performance improvements across several of the sub-tests, with the largest gains in ugnx (up to 55%), catia (up to 17%) and tcvis (up to 10%) across all of the HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.

35% increase in COD4 nice

[CraptacularOne]

Thanks for the heads up, I'l try these out and post back some results

[AbelJemka]

OpenGL Adaptive Anti-Aliasing Custom Filters support!
penGL CrossFireX™ (QUAD) support - 3 or 4 GPUs in CrossFire™ mode!

[Gambit_2K]

No reboot for the the update option is pretty nice too, saves my uptime haha.

[mascaras]

only saw this now


will install now


few tests here with cat 8.5 >> http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=191574&page=2






edit: Cat 8.6 No support for Hd4000 series??






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[Cooper]

edit: Cat 8.6 No support for Hd4000 series??

"ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series" = ati2mtag_R7X, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9440
"ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series " = ati2mtag_R7X, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9442

[onewingedangel]

I've spent a few hours today running HD3870 and HD3850 benchmarks with CAT 8.5 to compare with the HD4850 - going have to redo them with CAT 8.6 as well now

[Helmore]

Just like Cooper said, there is support it's just not official. This will mean that there could be some substantial improvements for the HD4000 series with newer drivers (8,7 and onwards). w0mbat already mentioned that these drivers do not support all the features of they HD4000 series, PowerPlay is not supported for example and UVD2 might not be supported as well. So expect power consumption to lower with future drivers, this also explains the high temperature that Jimmyz and others reported.
So here is hoping to what 8,7 can do for the HD4000 series.....
EDIT: Here is where w0mbat claimed these things and I trust him on this one.

[onewingedangel]

CAT 8.6 contains the 8.501 display driver wheras the display driver ATI made avaliable for HD4850 reviews is 8.501.1.0 - probably no real differences.

[CraptacularOne]

Well I got about a 400 point increase in Vantage with these over the 8.6 beta's

Cat 8.6 beta = P14565
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=147959

Cat 8.6 official = P14933
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=177338

And there is in fact a huge performance gain with COD4 that I noticed right away. Well over a 30fps difference in areas.

Still testing......

[Lu523]

I wil give a try on XP64.

[Data_]

No reboot for the the update option is pretty nice too, saves my uptime haha.

Same. Does anyone noticed personally any perfomance improvements?

[Eastcoasthandle]

Same. Does anyone noticed personally any perfomance improvements?

Yes, in COD4 so far...

[Carrera Rapida]

Same. Does anyone noticed personally any perfomance improvements?

Yep, gained ~20% in CoD4 and ~P1000 points in 3DMV.

Almost same in Crysis.

[ThatGuy16]

I installed, but now i can't get CCC to open on Vista x64. It appears to be loading, but nothing ever comes up. It also says that it is running in processes.

anyone else have this problem?

EDIT: nevermind, i reinstalled just CCC, and its working now. Go figure.

[003]

CAT 8.6 contains the 8.501 display driver wheras the display driver ATI made avaliable for HD4850 reviews is 8.501.1.0 - probably no real differences.

Are there any links to the 8.501.1.0 driver that was for the 4850 reviews? I'd like to try it out.

[safan80]

Didnt forget :P just didnt think many people used xp64 anymore :P

I do... I don't use 32bit anymore

[gojirasan]

Didnt forget :P just didnt think many people used xp64 anymore :P

What did you think they would be using? Ubuntu Hardy Heron?

[Pontos]

What did you think they would be using? Ubuntu Hardy Heron?

Funny, coincidentally I've installed Ubuntu Hardy today, because i needed it for something a friend asked me, and while checking for the ATI Linux driver i found the new Catalyst 8.6.
I was planning on post it here but the forum was down with only an "upgrading" message .
So yeah, I have it installed here in Ubuntu .
Gonna try the Unreal Tournament 2004 demo, maybe there are some improvements in performance .
OR, i can try the ET: QW demo...



The Control Panel feels so empty here.

[superbowtie]

* Call of Duty 4: Performance increases across all Radeon™ HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, with gains as large as 35% in specific maps.


ahh tell me again why I should get a 4870x2 now???
ohh wait because my buddie is keeping his 3870 CF setup and not upgrading...