ATI Catalyst 10.6 WHQL Software Suite

Ayer fue el turno de NVIDIA con los GeForce 257.21 WHQL series y hoy AMD responde liberando los nuevos drivers  ATI Catalyst 10.6 WHQL Software Suite, la entrega mensual de sus controladores gráficos para tarjetas ATI Radeon, chipset AMD-7 y 8 series y productos ATI Theater y FireStream 9-series. Esta nueva entrega hace énfasis en la aceleración de video e incluyen 2 nuevas características que mejoran la calidad de video de salida, entregan además soporte oficial de aceleración por GPU para el recientemente lanzado Adobe Flash Player 10.1, soporte oficial para OpenGL 4.0 y 3.3, además de un amplio rango de mejoras en el rendimiento en varios juegos, entre otros arreglos específicos.

Dentro de las novedades de estos drivers tenemos:

GPU acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe® Flash Player 10.1
-AMD GPU acceleration of Adobe® Flash Player 10.1 delivers smooth high definition video playback and reduces system resource utilization
-Adobe Flash Player 10.1 can be accelerated on notebook and desktop platforms featuring AMD graphics including:
*ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 and ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series
*ATI Mobility ATI Radeon™ HD 400 series (and higher)
*ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 series integrated graphics (and higher)

Video De-blocking support
-Reduces blocking artifacts seen in low-bit rate video during playback
-Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products

Mosquito noise reduction
-Reduces mosquito noise seen in highly compressed progressive video, during playback
-Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products

Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3
-ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
-ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on the ATI Radeon™ HD Series

Mejoras en juegos:

3DMark Vantage
-Overall scores improve up to 5% on a single ATI Radeon HD 5970

Batman: Arkham Asylum
-Performance improves up to 5% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
-Performance improves up to 10% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations

Aliens vs. Predator DirectX 11 Benchmark
-Performance improves up to 4% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
-Performance improves up to 10% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations
-Performance improves up to 3% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products

Company of Heroes – DX10
-Performance improves up to 7% on CrossFire ATI – – Radeon HD 5800 Series products
-Performance improves up to 5% with single card and CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations

DiRT 2 – DX9
-Performance improves up to 10% on single card ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
-Performance improves up to 10% on single card ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations
-Performance improves up to 4% on single card ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products

The Chronicles of Riddick – Assault on Dark Athena
-Performance improves up to 15% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
-Performance improves up to 13% on CrossFire and single card ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations
-Performance improves up to 8% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products

World in Conflict
-Performance improves up to 6% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
-Performance improves up to 8% on CrossFire and single card ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations

Wolfenstein
-Performance improves up to 18% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
-Performance improves up to 18% on CrossFire and single card ATI Radeon HD 5970 configurations
-Performance improves up to 11% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products

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