Category Archives: Benchmarks

Game Benchmarks, GPU and CPU tests

Catalyst Control Center – Should I Uninstall it?

Catalyst Control Center – Should I Uninstall it?

Ever since I wrote the AMD Catalyst Modding Guide, I thought about how Catalyst Control Center would impact performance and image quality. Further more some people asked me if Catalyst Control Center has any obscure functions, other than the obvious ones, and what happens if …

Risen 2: Dark Waters Benchmark

Risen 2: Dark Waters Benchmark

Risen 2: Dark Waters is a single-player fantasy-themed action role-playing game and the sequel to Risen by Piranha Bytes. It is published and distributed by Deep Silver. Risen 2 is a pirate themed game, but it transfers the classic Caribbean pirate themes to a fantasy …

AMD Catalyst 12.4 WHQL Benchmark

AMD Catalyst 12.4 WHQL Benchmark

AMD Catalyst 12.4 WHQL brings XP support for HD7000 Cards and fixes low quality textures, an issue that plagued previous drivers but the only affected cards were the HD7000 ones. Besides that the other major change is MLAA 2.0 is now officially implemented. Personally, I …

AMD Catalyst 8.97 18 April Benchmark

AMD Catalyst 8.97 18 April Benchmark

It’s been exactly 4 weeks since the last AMD leaked driver and we have another one to mess about until the next one surfaces. Earlier today the first driver with 8.97 packaging version was leaked, probably the next 12.4 WHQL or a early version of …

AMD Catalyst 12.3 WHQL Benchmark

AMD Catalyst 12.3 WHQL Benchmark

AMD Catalyst 12.3 WHQL has been released. Now, let’s see what this puppy can do. As you may know, a Battlefield 3 update just rolled out. You can see all the changes here. This update does not affect performance in any way so all the …

MLAA 2.0 Performance and Image Quality Review

MLAA 2.0 Performance and Image Quality Review

AMD introduced MLAA 2.0 with their latest Catalyst versions. MLAA 2.0 is supposed to greatly improve performance and image quality. MLAA or Morphological Anti Aliasing is AMD’s own way of getting rid of aliasing and the first version was implemented with Catalyst 10.10. MLAA blends …

AMD Catalyst 12.4 Beta 8.96 15 March Benchmark

AMD Catalyst 12.4 Beta 8.96 15 March Benchmark

After a couple of 8.95 stringed drivers have leaked, it’s finally time for another 8.96 driver. The latest one is dated March 15th and the only things that changed since 8.96 28 February is the OpenGL driver version (6.14.10.11616 vs 6.14.10.11627) and the newest iteration …

AMD Catalyst 8.950.5 24 Feb Benchmark

AMD Catalyst 8.950.5 24 Feb Benchmark

Yesterday a new AMD “official driver leak” emerged. This driver promised major improvements (up to 80%) in regard with MLAA (Morphological Anti Aliasing) performance; Supersampling should be faster as well. Of course, these improvements are only visible with HD7xxx series Graphic Cards or so says …

AMD Catalyst 8.951.1 05 March Benchmark

AMD Catalyst 8.951.1 05 March Benchmark

So we have the first leaked driver in two weeks, built on 5th of March this driver is not new, even the string itself suggests so: 8.951.1-120305m-134662E-ATI. Even though this driver has full support for Windows 8, I didn’t choose to test it there because, …