AMD Catalyst 12.6 9.00 BETA June 12 Benchmark

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Posted on June 14, 2012 at 4:15 AM in Benchmarks

Three important things here:

1. Crysis 2 dips a bit lower with all 12.6 Beta drivers than with 8.97 April 18.
2. DiRT 3 DX11 is now performing as it should, previous two 12.6 BETAs were giving ~25% FPS than any other driver.
3. Skyrim gets a rather big boost in performance, about 10% but from what I read, CF flickering issue has not been fixed.

AMD Catalyst 12.6 9.00 Beta June 12 Benchmark - Crysis 2
AMD Catalyst 12.6 9.00 Beta June 12 Benchmark - Metro 2033
AMD Catalyst 12.6 9.00 Beta June 12 Benchmark - Battlefield 3
AMD Catalyst 12.6 9.00 Beta June 12 Benchmark - Battlefield 3
AMD Catalyst 12.6 9.00 Beta June 12 Benchmark - DiRT 3
AMD Catalyst 12.6 9.00 Beta June 12 Benchmark - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
AMD Catalyst 12.6 9.00 Beta June 12 Benchmark - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim


Page 2 – 3DMark06,3DMark11,Cinebench and Unigine
Page 4 – Conclusion

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  • connos

    Make the changes you mention. Also if you can on conclusion mention how the driver feels, like stuttering or image flickering corruption. Maybe some drivers feel smoother from others but fps don’t different. Thanks, you are doing a great job.

    • http://benchmark3d.com Johnny 3D

      I always mention everything that is wrong with the driver (bugs, IQ quality, etc), (un)fortunately I never have issues with my HD6950 so there isn’t anything to mention other than performance related things.

  • HQT

    Great benchmark. Thanks
    Can you clarify about switchable graphics support? Does this package include Intel HD drivers?

    • http://benchmark3d.com Johnny 3D

      Yes, it does.

      • HQT

        That might explain the ~740MB unpacked size.
        Thanks again.

  • Netcat

    So maybe for my mobility 5730 would be better this than the 8.97 one!?

  • cristian

    thk.. good work !!!

  • mohammed

    is this good driver for my hd 5670 ?????

  • Mohammed

    is this good for hd 5670 ?!!

  • Renato84

    While they fixed hdmi sound output disappearing in all 12.6 betas, the problem got worse, at least on my 7950. Now I get an unbearable constant crackling on all 5.1 channels. You didnt mention this (I presume you dont use hdmi sound output).

    • http://benchmark3d.com Johnny 3D

      You’re right, I don’t use the card’s HDMI output. It’s impossible for me to “catch” all issues with a driver, that’s why communities exist, if there is a issue with a driver I will report in the article but usually I don’t have any issues with my HD6950 and/or drivers.

      Generally speaking, if you have an issue with a driver it would be a good idea to report it to AMD through this report form: http://www.amdsurveys.com/se.ashx?s=5A1E27D20B2F3EAC

  • Renato84

    I have yet to test this one, though.

  • pesti

    would the skyrim boost be possible because of skyrim patches ? or do you have your steam on not automaticly updating games?

    • http://benchmark3d.com Johnny 3D

      I haven’t updated Skyrim in quite some time because I didn’t want to retest the whole 22 drivers. Skyrim is version 1.5 for all 22 drivers, I have updated Skyrim a month or two ago (when they added shadows for grass) and had to retest about 15 drivers which took a whole day basically, I don’t want to repeat that operation any time soon.

      So, the Skyrim boost is related to the driver and not to a game update.

  • Exostenza

    Why use driver sweeper if it has not been supported since 2011?

    • http://benchmark3d.com Johnny 3D

      It’s a whole lot easier to use than Atiman Uninstaller. Both Driver Sweeper and Atiman Uninstaller miss files or registries but because Driver Sweeper only needs 2-3 clicks to use it’s what I recommend. I used both apps and the results were similar.

    • dr.fartnote

      what not supported? 3.2.0 is current. works great…just don’t download from Guru

  • Mohammed

    please answer me BenchmarK3D “is this good driver for my hd 5670″

    • eldemoledor

      yes all radeon suport

  • Luke

    Please add to your tests the great Witcher 2 EE & Max Payne 3.
    Thanks for all your work!

  • Sandro

    I have switchable graphics ati 6770m+Intel, and this drivers did not work, in fact it didnt detected my intel.. i noticed inside the folders the intel drivers were only for winidows 8? weird. any ideas? i want an official recent driver on my switchable graphics laptop.. bah

  • Dan

    Exellent work as always! But a trivial question: is this island mentioned referring to Öland or Åland? (the pronunciation is almost the same) cas the other one is part of Sweden and the other is part of Finland :D not that it really matters ;P
    Well whatever :D , I really love this site man. I didnt even realize the performance differences in different drivers before this! Always thought the newest is the best :D Thanks for your hard work!

  • Lips

    I don’t know if this is normal, but when I installed this driver, a new startup program ran in place of CCC.exe called CLIstart.exe. It has a system tray icon which had the same picture as the control center but when right clicked i dont get the configuration settings. When i click the icon to launch the control center, there is a long delay, the icon dissapears and the CLIstart.exe process stops. after a minute the CCC.exe will start normally and i have acess to all of the configuration settings in the sys tray icon.

    • Chinley

      Go to ur startup manager and add MOM.exe to ur startup entries

  • Guts

    Did something change concerning how you bench BF3?
    It seems to me the performance gets worse step by step.
    E.g. there were drivers like “8.951.1 05 March” which got 35 min. FPS and still close to 38 FPS on the average front.
    Or maybe its just the summer heat?