Catalyst 12.6 Beta (June 4) are worth the look for 3DMark11

[Christian Ney]

Hey,

Just tested the Catalyst 12.6 Beta from June 4 and I noticed a 1.5 % improvement on 3DMark 11's Graphics Score. Almost 120 points.



There is also a little gain on 3DMark Vantage and an average gain of 3 % under games. Btw for the gamers out there, it fixes the performance problem under The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrime, so you will see a gain of 27 % going from the Catalyst 12.4 to the Catalyst 12.6 Beta.


For those interested to see all the graphs, follow the link

Download the Catalyst 12.6 Beta (June 4) at Guru3D

[Christian Ney]

I saw all you guys are benching using the Catalyst 12.4 for the MSI MOA for exemple, I think it's worth taking a look to those new drivers if you want to scrounge some more points

[fuzz3l]

I noticed the gain in 3D11 too, so we used this driver but the card was not good enough so we failed

[Vivi]

My results:

5.94 Ivy - lightning 7970 (1900mhz memory)

14280 - 1550mhz core (12.4)
14780 - 1550mhz core (12.6)

Don't know why i have such big increase, maybe one slow run vs a good run. But these drivers help BIG time.
Maybe more for Ivy than 2011. Cause it boosts gpu score even higher.

i would put money on it Xtreme Addict would get 16k at 1750mhz and these drivers + Ivy at 6g

[Christian Ney]

Not bad, you got 3 % improvement.

Did you test the ones from June 4 or the ones from May 22 ?


I did test at stock settings so.

btw, In CrossFire there is an improvement too: 1.1 %







Link to the Article

[Christian Ney]

12.6 Ftw:

[riska]

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=364400

try this one from 12-06 there should be a little bigger boost in 3D11

[Christian Ney]

I will, thanks for the link

[K404]

How is the performance in other benches?

[Christian Ney]

Planned to test each gen of gpu with each drivers on each hwbot benchmarks, but will take a while till it's done, take quite some time