ATi Catalyst 6.2 Beta Performance Results

[jrodga2k5]

Well across the board on my x1800xt(PE Bios) there seems to be a boost in performance!

Running the quake 4 bench w/ 6.1's
Resolution: 1280×1024
Demo: guru5.demo
Quality: Ultra
Aspect Ratio: [16:9]
Antialiasing: 4×
Anisotrophic filtering: 16×
Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP) disabled
Score = 86.6 FPS


Resolution: 1280×1024
Demo: guru5.demo
Quality: Ultra
Aspect Ratio: [16:9]
Antialiasing: None
Anisotrophic filtering: 16×
Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP) disabled
Score = 106.2 FPS

Compared to the 6.2 beta scores

Resolution: 1280×1024
Demo: guru5.demo
Quality: Ultra
Aspect Ratio: [16:9]
Antialiasing: 4×
Anisotrophic filtering: 16×
Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP) disabled
Score = 90.6 FPS

Resolution: 1280×1024
Demo: guru5.demo
Quality: Ultra
Aspect Ratio: [16:9]
Antialiasing: None
Anisotrophic filtering: 16×
Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP) disabled
Score = 111.1 FPS

So in quake 4 an improvement of 4 fps and 4.9fps respectively

3D Mark 06 has increased too

with Cat 6.1's 3978
with Cat 6.2betas 4252

3D Mark 05

with cat 6.1's 91xx
with cat 6.2betas 9473

 

[jrodga2k5]

honestly Id give these ago, just ran 3d mark 05 9473 which is around 300 more again to what I was getting previously! So far I think these are working very well with my x1800xt!

Definately worth a try to see how it goes! But to be fair it is only a few fps after all eh

 

[jrodga2k5]

hmmmmmm my quake 4 performance problem on ultra quality ended up being a sound issue lol!

Anyways the betas seem fine to be honest, pushing a lot more out of the shaders now as is shown by the 300 point increase in 3Dmark 05 and 06!
the x18xx series and the x19xx series are finally getting new drivers to really strut their stuff