“Every now and then graphics card makers claim that their products perform better with the new driver versions. We decided to find out how true these claims actually are.”Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- ATI unleashes Catalyst 9.1 drivers; adds Open GL 3.0 support @ HEXUS
- Sapphire ATOMIC HD 4870×2 (H2O) @ CPU3D
- HIS Radeon HD 4850 IceQ 4 TurboX 512MB video card review @ Elite Bastards
- Sapphire Ultimate HD4670 Passively Cooled Graphics Card @ Metku
- Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 2G GDDR3 @ HotHardware
- XFX’s cool, different Radeon HD 4850 hits the market @ HEXUS
- Don’t You Know I’m Toxic? – Sapphire HD 4870 1GB Toxic Edition @ Hardware Zone
- The Fastest VGA Setups Examined @ Tweaktown
- NVIDIA GeForce & Fallout 3 @ TechARP
- XFX GTX-285 XXX @ Bjorn3D
- EVGA GeForce GTX 285 SSC Edition Videocard Review @ HardwareLogic
- BFG GeForce GTX 285 OCX @ Guru3D
- DriverHeaven 285 and 295 GTX Analysis
- Bringing 3D to Your Homes – NVIDIA GeForce 3D Vision @ Hardware Zone
- EVGA releases GeForce GTX 285 For The Win @ HEXUS
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 Overclocking Guide @ TechARP
An inauspicious start to 2009
The last Catalyst release, 8.12, offered huge improvements to all Radeon owners excepting those with multiple HD4850s. The hotfix for the 8.12 even cheered those unfortunates up, as it fixed the degradation they were seeing. Just yesterday we saw the release of the first driver for this year, Catalyst 9.1, which adds support for OpenGL, but not much in the way of other features. X-bit Labs compares the 8.12 driver, both with and without the hotfix, against the new 9.1 driver. The results are a little dissapointing, coming on the heels of the 8.12.
