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AMD "Never Settle" 12.11 Driver - benchmarks

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Slides: http://www.techpowerup.com/174145/AMD-Announces-Never-Settle-Catalyst-12.11-Driver-Update.html

Game bundles: http://www.techpowerup.com/174146/AMD-Also-Announces-Never-Settle-Game-Bundles.html

Benchmarks:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Catalyst_12.11_Performance/1.html

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6393/amds-holiday-plans-cat1211-new-bundle

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graph...211-benchmarked-surprising-performance-gains/

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...md-12-11-never-settle-driver-performance.html

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/2059/1/

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_catalyst_12_11_driver_performance.html

Just Imagine a ASUS MATRIX HD 7970 Platinum Video Card with those drivers.

Catalyst 12.11 is coming... 10/22 3PM ET
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AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta Download
http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/amd_catalyst_12_11_beta_download.html

Hilbert Hagedoorn said:
We might need to take these drivers offline, AMD is creating a new build to fix some bugs that are in this version. Just so that you guys know !
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Rossi~ said:
AMD would do anything to make sure they're beating nVidia in benchmarks. The question is, what have they done to get this sort of improvement?
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With the 12.11 drivers AMD has completely eradicated their performance defecit in BF3, with the 7970, 7870, and 7770 being made performance competitive with (if not a hair faster than) their respective NVIDIA GTX 600 counterparts in our BF3 benchmark. AMD has told us that the specific performance benefits are map-dependent with our results appearing at the high-end of their guidance, so while not every map will see the same 20%+ performance gains, some of them will while others will be in the 10% range. Much like our overall performance averages, the largest gains are at 1920 with FXAA, while 2560 with FXAA and 1920 with MSAA will see smaller gains, once again hinting that AMD’s optimizations are on the shader/texture side rather than ROP/memory.

For our part we have long theorized that the Frostbite 2 engine’s heavy use of deferred rendering techniques – particularly its massive G-buffer – was the factor that AMD was struggling with. While these results don’t really further validate or invalidate that theory, what is clear is that AMD has fixed their Frostbite 2 performance problem. Given the fact that Frostbite 2 will be used in at least a couple more games, including the AMD Gaming Evolved title Medal of Honor Warfighter, this was an important engine for AMD to finally conquer.

For their part, AMD hasn’t told us much about what it is they’ve done to optimize their drivers. What we do know is that it’s not driver command lists (an optional DX11 feature that NV has supported for some time), so it has to be something else. AMD has briefly mentioned surface mapping and memory mapping optimizations, but it’s not clear what exactly they’ve done there and if those are the only optimizations.
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/6393/amds-holiday-plans-cat1211-new-bundle
 
LtMatt said:
Yep Nvidia got to work closely the bf3 devs and frostbite 2, looks like now AMD have now had chance to work with the same engine (albeit on MOH and danger close devs) it looks like they've caught up and even surpassed. Once you throw in the general overclocking potential of the 79xx series it should expand a little further as well. Good times.

Medal of honor unlocks later as well on origin so ill be playing that. :D
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I read mention of steam keys as well, whether that is true or not we will find out.
 
fluidz said:
Seeing them too here. On the desktop they're thin horizontal lines, in games they show as random shapes, appear and disappear in a blink of eye. Seen two flashes on the desktop in the last 10 minutes.
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Amatsubu said:
I didn't get these on the desktop, only in some games. In Witcher 2 it was noticeable and a bit more frequent. I still don't know what might be causing it but I'd be glad if it disappeared with the realease of 12.11, it's pretty annoying.
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Overcklocking programs ?
http://www.overclock.net/t/1265543/the-amd-how-to-thread#post_17399313
 
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Our testing didn't go without issues though; during one of our test we had some missing geometry that was...distracting.
This didn't happen every time we played the game, but it was frequent enough to be more than a mild issue. To be fair, AMD did tell us about this bug BEFORE we did our testing so they were upfront about it. Also, the driver that is being released later this week for the public to download should have the fix for this in place.

Oh, and obviously, our performance testing was done only on run throughs with all items...you know, there.
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SKYMTL said:
DO NOT download that. There's a reason why AMD states in their release notes that it shouldn't be distributed (guess Hilbert neglected to read). There are supposedly compatibility issues with the HD 6000 and HD 5000 series cards.



The HD 6000 series could see some optimizations in certain titles.
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The guy from hardwarecanucks
 
owikh84 said:
Tested myself the Never Settle driver... on 7970 @ 1300/1750

Catalyst 12.9
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Catalyst 12.11
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http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...game-bundles&p=5145823&viewfull=1#post5145823
 
Just installed 12.10 and all is ok, was a little worried about the NET Framework 4.
As i play EVE a lot i use EVEMon which uses NET Framework 4.
If NET Framework 4 is not installed EVEMon will download it and install it for you but i found it time consuming.

So when it was time to do a fresh install of windows due to my OCing i thought I would download and install NET Framework 4 first from MS, but upon installing EVEMon it still said that i didn't have the relevant NET Framework 4 and it downloaded NET Framework 4, so it maybe an idea to install EVEMon and see if it grabs NET Framework 4 again as it seems that NET Framework 4 can be an issue with CCC not opening up.

You can then uninstall EVEMon.
https://bitbucket.org/BattleClinic/evemon/downloads/EVEMon-install-1.7.2.3882.exe
 
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