Graphic Cards ATI Catalyst 6.6 WHQL Drivers + Performance Analysis

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ATI Catalyst Drivers for Windows XP\2K 6.6

ATI’s latest Catalyst 6.6 driver supports ATI based graphics cards, motherboards and TV tuners. With the new Catalyst 6.6 driver ATI has included support for the Theater 650 based TV tuner cards. Older DirectX 8 based graphics cards such as the Radeon 9250, 8500, 7500 are not supported with this Catalyst release. The latest driver also introduces a Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 extension for ATI’s AVIVO Converter. This allows users to convert recorded content to the various supported formats such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4 SP, AVC and Windows Media. Performance improvements have been made in Far Cry, F.E.A.R., and the original Splinter Cell. Over two dozen issues have been fixed with the new Catalyst 6.6 release too.

• Far Cry performance improves 4-5%. Larger gains of up to 18.3% can be seen when using anisotropic filtering.

• Fear performance improves as much as 8.5% on X1800 and X1900 Single card systems and as much as 14% on X1800 and X1900 Crossfire systems.

• Splinter Cell (original) performance improves as much a 7% on X1300 and X1600 Crossfire systems.

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ATI Catalyst 6.6 Performance Analysis

Release Notes from ATI

From ATI:

Performance Improvements

As with most Catalyst® releases, performance has increased in various situations.

Far Cry performance improves 4-5%. Larger gains of up to 18.3% can be seen when using anisotropic filtering.

Fear performance improves as much as 8.5% on X1800 and X1900 Single card systems and as much as 14% on X1800 and X1900 Crossfire systems.

Splinter Cell (original) performance improves as much a 7% on X1300 and X1600 Crossfire systems.

Conclusion

We can clearly see the performance increase in our AA and AF tests with the ATI Radeon X1900XT graphics card. We also see a little performance increase in Half Life 2 Lost Coast non HDR tests with both the X1900XT and X1300. ATI did promise us some performance increases, which can be seen in our F.E.A.R. benchmark on the X1900XT.

We weren’t too sure if a new Catalyst driver version was coming this month but they ended up delivering and ATI has produced quite as useful driver for the lovers of AA and AF – although mostly for Radeon X1900XT(X) owners who love AA and AF.

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