• ATI vs NVIDIA – souboj ovladačů ve Vista vs 7

  – hráči přejděte na Windows 7?

• Lost Planet: Colonies – performance gains of up to 20% were seen on the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series, and performance gains of up to 50% were seen on the ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4500 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 4300 Series of products
• Unigine Tropics Demo DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 – performance gains of up to 20% were seen on ATI CrossFireX configurations using the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series of products

• ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 – the industries first Unified graphics driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
• AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista – demonstrating AMD’s Windows 7 graphics driver leadership and focus on delivering a stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD hardware
• Delivers full WDDM 1.1 support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products
• All future ATI Catalyst postings will deliver one single unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista (Please note that the AVIVO Video Converter is not currently supported under Windows 7)

• Using ATI Stream™ technology, owners of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series of graphics accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with ATI Catalyst™ 9.3

• As of ATI Catalyst 9.3 and future ATI Catalyst releases, the AMD Windows Vista HDMI audio driver is automatically included
• The HDMI audio driver will only be installed if the AMD graphics accelerator has an HDMI display connector and there is no 3rd party HDMI audio driver installed.

• AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators
• The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux - 32 and 64 bit variants
• The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications - samples are provided within the SDK
• The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site

Jak vidíte, novinek a vylepšení není málo, tentokrát jde o hodně technických zlepšení, než výkonnostních, ovšem ATI to podle posledních testů výkonově moc nepotřebuje. Naopak potěší opravy dalších několika chyb. Z mé zkušenosti jsem zpozoroval lehký měřitelný nárůst výkonu u Crysis, Lost Planet nemám, tak nemohu posoudit avizovaných 20-50% výkonu navíc.

• RedFlag DT 6.0 sp2 production support
• RedFlag DT 7.0 support (early look)
• SLED and SLES 11 support (early look)

• AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators
• The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux - 32 and 64 bit variants
• The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications - samples are provided within the SDK
• The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site

• HDTV mode support (720p, 1080i, 1080p, and custom) for digital displays
• Color temperature controls for digital displays
• Hue, Saturation, Brightness, and Contrast color controls for digital displays
• Digital display controls (Overscan support, HDMI settings, DVI settings)