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AMD Catalyst 13.3 BETA 2

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AMD Catalyst™ 13.3 Windows® Beta Driver

Last Updated
3/15/2013
Article Number
RN-WIN-B13.3

AMD Catalyst™ 13.3 Beta Highlights & Driver Download Link for Windows®


FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF CATALYST 13.3 BETA

Improves performance in Far Cry 3 up to 5 percent
Improve performance in Sim City 4 up to 16 percent
Improves latency performance issues seen in Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution
Resolves slight corruption seen in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for CrossFire and single GPU configurations


Compatible Operating Systems:

Windows 8 (32 & 64-bit versions)
Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit versions with SP1 or higher)
Windows Vista (32 & 64-bit versions with SP2 or higher)

Applicable Products:
This article applies to the following configuration(s):

Hardware:

AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series
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http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst13-3WINBetaDriver.aspx

Thanks to asder00 for spotting these early.
 
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Hold on a minute. If these are really 13.3 beta 2 then these could well be the first beta of the new memory management drivers.
 
Improves performance in Far Cry 3 up to 5 percent
Improve performance in Sim City 4 up to 16 percent
Improves latency performance issues seen in Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution
Resolves slight corruption seen in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for CrossFire and single GPU configurations
 
LtMatt said:
You beat me and Finally to the finishing post with these. Efforts must be doubled!
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Mike306 said:
Well done on beating LT. :D
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This is clearly quite an achievement. :D


LtMatt said:
Hold on a minute. If these are really 13.3 beta 2 then these could well be the first beta of the new memory management drivers.
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I hear from unofficial sources that this might be partially the case. Still waiting for official release notes confirming this, though.
 
flopper said:
Improves performance in Far Cry 3 up to 5 percent
Improve performance in Sim City 4 up to 16 percent
Improves latency performance issues seen in Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution
Resolves slight corruption seen in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for CrossFire and single GPU configurations
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:cool::cool:
 
I've been in discussions with the man from Del Monti and i can confirm he says yes. :cool:

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Tomb Raider Settings Used

1440p - Ultimate Preset - AA+FXAA OFF
i7@2700K @5.0Ghz
7970@1325/1875






13.2 Beta 7







13.3 Beta 2







I am pleased to award these drivers the Matt...

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Ati seem to be getting there act together now and iam verry impressed with all the recent driver releses.
I may well sell my 690 and go for a 7970
 
is memory management/latency tweaks game dependant or overall driver dependant ?

ie does ATI have to optimise for every game to reduce this latency ?

just I'm considering going 7970/7950 or 680 and one thing that put me off ATI cards in past was how driver dependant specific for games they were - vs the Nvidia drivers which seemed to be much more consistent ?
 
too many drivers so little time...do these do anything significant? i dont need an extra frame here and there im ok now?
 
Buckster said:
is memory management/latency tweaks game dependant or overall driver dependant ?

ie does ATI have to optimise for every game to reduce this latency ?

just I'm considering going 7970/7950 or 680 and one thing that put me off ATI cards in past was how driver dependant specific for games they were - vs the Nvidia drivers which seemed to be much more consistent ?
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I think its going to be a gradual improvement that affects all games, particularly directx11 games. Most games are fine, this is just optimization to improve performance and latency, in some titles more than others.

As far as i understand it the Memory Management was written for VLIW5 (cayman 6950 etc), and not GCN, (7970 etc) which is completely different.
So the improvement is because of that, not because there are huge issues already.
 
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