GPU acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe® Flash Player 10.1
- AMD GPU acceleration of Adobe® Flash Player 10.1 delivers smooth high definition video playback and reduces system resource utilization
- Adobe Flash Player 10.1 can be accelerated on notebook and desktop platforms featuring AMD graphics including:
- ATI Radeon HD 5000 and ATI Radeon HD 4000 series
- ATI Mobility ATI Radeon HD 400 series (and higher)
- ATI Radeon HD 3000 series integrated graphics (and higher)
Video De-blocking support
- Reduces blocking artifacts seen in low-bit rate video during playback
- Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Mosquito noise removal
- Reduces mosquito noise seen in highly compressed progressive video, during playback.
- Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3
- ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
- ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on the ATI Radeon HD Series
Highlights of the Linux ATI Catalyst 10.6 release include:
New Features
Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3
- ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
- ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on the ATI Radeon HD Series
Support for new Linux operating systems
- This release of ATI Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems: o RHEL 5.5 production support
2D performance enhancements
- ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers a new architecture for 2D acceleration. The new 2D architecture delivers fast windows resizing with Compiz/Visual-Effects and general 2D performance improvements in all AMD supported Linux distributions.
