ATI Catalyst Drivers: 8.11 vs 8.12 Performance Mini-Review
3DMark Vantage
3DMark Vantage , is the latest in GPU benchmarking from Futuremark. Since its release, it has found its way into many test suites, including this one. Similar to 3DMark 06 , it tests the CPU and GPU subsystems; since all other hardware remains exactly the same, the section that will make the difference in the scores, will be the GPU tests.
The following graphs shows the results:
The only positive for the 8.12 drivers in Vantage came from the GPU Score in single card configuration. The 8.11 drivers prevailed in all other tests.
Looks good !
Could you also add 8.12 Hotfix tests to that ?
Nice work.
I’d better get to running my Catalyst 8.12 benchmarks. I was going to do them this weekend but I started playing Far Cry 2.
Thank you.
Nice idea Karan, however, the Catalyst 8.12 hotfix was released to address a black screen issue with the 4850 cards in CrossFire.
It was not a performance related release.