AMD Catalyst 11.8 WHQL Drivers Released
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:27 pm
AMD has just released AMD Catalyst 11.8 for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Linux platforms on http://www.amd.com
For more information on AMD Catalyst™ 11.8 (for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP), including all of the resolved issues and performance highlights in this release, please see the AMD Catalyst™ 11.8 release notes.Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 11.8 Windows release include:
Feature highlights:
AMD Overdrive - CPU over-clocking controls in the AMD Vision Control Center
AMD Overdrive has been enhanced to include both CPU and GPU over-clocking controls within the AMD Vision Control Center
CPU over-clocking is only supported on AMD Black edition CPUs
Performance highlights
Improves performance up to 10% in Crysis 2 DirectX 11 version for both non-Anti-Aliasing, and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
Improves performance up to 8% in Fear 3 DirectX 11 version with application enabled Anti-Aliasing on the
AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
Improves performance up to 30% when AMD’s Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA) is enabled through the
Catalyst™ Control Center on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
Improves performance up to 20% in Call of Duty Black Operations for single GPU and Multi-GPU configurations on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series