ATI Catalyst 8.7 Drivers Released

Wed 2008-07-23 - Posted by Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

AMD has released version 8.7 of the ATI Catalyst drivers. This latest update supports all Radeon 9500 and above graphics cards.

So what’s new in this release? For starters, this release of Catalyst introduces an enhancement to the Catalyst Control Center Information Center, so that complete hardware information is shown for each graphics card installed in the system. Most importantly though, it provides some impressive performance improvements:

3DMark Vantage: Performance increases of up to 20% are seen in the Performance Preset on single card configured systems when using the ATI Radeon HD 3600 or ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series of products.
Company of Heroes DX10: Performance increases between 3% to 12% are seen in specific maps on single card configured systems when using the ATI Radeon HD 4800, ATI Radeon HD 3800, and ATI Radeon HD 3600 Series of products.
Lost Planet DX10: Performance increases between 4% to 15% are seen in specific maps on single card configured systems when using the ATI Radeon HD 4800, ATI Radeon HD 3800, or ATI Radeon HD 3600 Series of products.
Call Of Duty 4 DX9: Performance increases of up to 4% in specific maps are seen on single card configured systems when using the ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series of products.
Lost Planet DX9: CrossFire scaling improves up to 1.7x and performance increases up to 80% across all ATI Radeon products when Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering are enabled.

If you are hesitant to install these new drivers, wait a few days for TweakTown to post their usual in-depth driver analysis. .

Click here to download the official release notes (PDF).

Click here for the download links.

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