“March is here and the graphics division of Advanced Micro Devices released a new version of ATI Catalyst drivers. As usual, we performed a quick blitz-test aimed at revealing the performance improvement delivered by the new driver version.”Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 Vapor-X 512MB: last throw of the RV770 dice @ HEXUS
- Open-Source ATI Graphics In Ubuntu 9.04 @ Phoronix
- Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 2 GB Vapor-X Review @ Driverheaven
- Custom Cooler at Last – Palit GeForce GTX 260 Sonic 216 SP @ Hardware Zone
- Inno3D GeForce GTX 265 iChill Accelero @ Guru of 3D
- The Future of Stereo 3D Part I: Nvidia GeForce 3D Vision @ Hardware Canucks
- Gigabyte 9600 GT (GV-N96TZL-1GI) 1GB @ Neoseeker
- Sparkle Calibre P980X+ geForce 9800GTX+ 512MB Video Card Review @ ThinkComputers
- NVIDIA Quadro CX Pro Graphics For Adobe CS4 @ HotHardware
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTS 250 1GB @ Tweaktown
- New Life of the Old Architecture: Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 @ X-bit Labs
A quick peek at Catalyst 9.3
X-bit Labs took the new 9.3 drivers from AMD on a quick spin to see how they compare to the previous 9.2 version. The two big pieces of news from this new release are support for Windows 7 and improvements to video playback on Vista. Of course, gamers are more interested in frame rate improvement, and that was what X-bit Labs focused on. From their testing it seems that while there is no reason not to install the new driver, unless you are playing Lost Planet you won’t have much to be excited about.
