AMD has some news coming for the Catalyst drivers suit. Yesterday we presented the logotype for the coming drivers and AMD has now released a new version of Catalyst for download, Catalyst 10.9.
The September Catalyst driver comes with performance optimizations in STALKER: Call of Pripyat and Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. The focus is on the Radeon HD 5000 family, but also the Radeon HD 4800 series will get a boost in Chronicles of Riddick.
AMD has also revisedthe support for GPU acceleration in Internet Explorer 9 Beta, and updated several game profiles and activated CrossFire in StarCraft II.
STALKER: Call of Pripyat Benchmark
o Performance increases up to 20% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations with Enhanced full dynamic lighting (DX11) and anti-aliasing enabled
o Performance increases up to 12% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations with Enhanced full dynamic lighting (DX11) and anti-aliasing enabled
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
o Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations
o Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations
o Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations
o Performance increases up to 6% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Series single and CrossFire™ configurationsCatalyst™ Application Profiles
- Aliens Vs. Predator – Profile update
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – Profile update
- F1 2010 – Profile update
- Kane & Lynch 2 – New profile
Support for the Internet Explorer 9 Beta release
AMD’s graphics processors deliver graphics acceleration through Direct2D and HTML 5 for the Internet Explorer 9 beta release
More information and download links can be found at at AMD’s website. There you will also find a hotfix for Radeon HD 4870 X2 and HD 4850 X2.
