ATI Catalyst 8.3 Analysis
TweakTown has just posted a
performance analysis of the new ATI Catalyst 8.3 drivers, both XP and Vista versions.
Let’s see what they had to say:
“This is a pretty good driver as far as performance increases go for Vista users. Crysis sees a very nice bump in performance and so does UT3. CINEBENCH also sees gains but the OpenGL increase isn’t carried over to our OpenGL based game Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
The Windows XP driver on the other hand seems to be horrendous for X2 users with some severe power drops. We tried multiple X2 cards and tried the other Catalyst drivers and the dropped score in a few key benchmarks were consistent on the 8.3s.”
To summarize, Vista - Yay! & XP - Boo!
As is often the case with video card drivers, they broke some stuff while fixing some other stuff. Nevertheless, Vista users will benefit from this release.
Click here to read the full article.
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