5870 owners: Catalyst 10.6 Beta is FAST

[damha]

http://www.station-drivers.com/page/ati%20catalyst.htm

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?p=1336278288

Beta2 (8.741) only leaked for XP. Original beta (8.740) is available for all OSes.

EDIT:

Above are only 8.740 & 8.741.

Here is 8.743 (Vista/7 Preview).

EDIT2: The 8.743 drivers seem to be fake. Use the ones from station-drivers only.

Users of Crossfire reported for 8.740

~10fps Crysis bench
~5fps Metro
~3fps AVP
~2000points vantage performance 5970 (@initialised)
~3000points vantage GPU score tri-fire

over 10.5 retail.

EDIT3:

Single card performance increases appear to be minor, but noticeable in Crysis (@Eastcoasthandle).

[Mad1723]

Fast in what? BF? Dirt? Vantage? Crysis?

[Ket]

You say FAST... how fast?

[Starscream]

Ya fast but being fast could stil means its slower then 10.5

[damha]

Users of Crossfire reported

~10fps Crysis bench
~5fps Metro
~3fps AVP
~2000points vantage performance 5970
~3000points vantage GPU score tri-fire

over 10.5 cats.

[Eastcoasthandle]

And for single GPU?

[M.Beier]

Sweet, got to use this sucker for the HD5870 review!

EDIT;
No win7 64bit...

[damha]

Use the 8.740s, those are actually the ones used for the numbers above.

[Carfax]

10 FPS gain in Crysis

That sounds kind of fishy to me. Did anyone ever do a follow up to PCgameshardware's analysis, which claimed that ATI was doing some kind of "brilinear" optimization in Crysis to improve frame rate?

10 FPS seems like a really big jump!

[SKYMTL]

Scaling in Crysis wasn't that great with the 10.5 drivers to begin with.

Plus, I don't put any stock in Vantage results.

[Ket]

Who does? Vantage is a biased, crap, ugly benchmark tool. Thats why 3DM06 is still a lot of peoples fav I'd like to see numbers for stalker COP, thats one of the worst looking worst performing games I've ever played

[Manicdan]

who would like 06 being so cpu dependent?

[damha]

Nobody here with a 5870 going to test the 8.740

:'(

[Rebel44]

Nobody here with a 5870 going to test the 8.740

:'(

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

[damha]

8.740 is win7/vista............................................. ...

[stasio]

Cat 10.6 preview (8.743)-win7/vista testing:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=323247
Btw,we have drivers section for this.

[damha]

Cat 10.6 preview (8.743)-win7/vista testing:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=323247
Btw,we have drivers section for this.

Read first post, fake.

[initialised]

Nobody here with a 5870 going to test the 8.740

:'(

I think I have a rig on my racks with dual 5870, one with LCS as well, both 980Xs so the CPU wont get in the way. I'll be using vantage, performance differences in vantage GPU score tend to follow averages taken over many games.

[Eastcoasthandle]

Ok, with a stocl 5870 I did notice an increase with Vantage. However, Cat 10.4 and 10.5 provided much lower scores then Cat 10.3a. Cat 10.6 beta is a little faster then 10.3a for me. I also noticed a bump in min and max using Crysis Warhead. That's all I have at the moment.

Let's me be clear. Cat 10.4 and Cat 10.5 are slower for me. I only keep them because of the fast load times ofr BC2. BC2 loadtimes appear to be the same so far.

[SoulsCollective]

If this is the 8.740 build that was floating around a while ago, which it appears to be, I tried it out and noticed no measurable performance increase in CoP, Metro or Heaven, but was getting rendering artifacts in Metro. Went back to 10.5.

[blindbox]

Read first post, fake.

After reading the thread itself, I doubt it's fake. It's just that it's not signed yet. I.e. it's like the driver came straight from the developer before handing it out to his team of beta-testers. There's a test driver signing tool ngohq provides.


This of course, is just my opinion.


I'll be testing this driver. My rig has so many beta software

[zalbard]

Users of Crossfire reported

~10fps Crysis bench
~5fps Metro
~3fps AVP
~2000points vantage performance 5970
~3000points vantage GPU score tri-fire

over 10.5 cats.

Damn, so much for "no optimisations left for the old arch"!

[zsamz_]

i'm likin 10.6 beta maxed out crysis smooth as silk on 5970

[initialised]

Negligible gain on single 5870 in a stock clocked system.

10-5


10-6

[BenchZowner]

That's well within the benchmark's run to run variation.