Category Archives: Benchmarks

Alan Wake is a Third Person Action game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The game was first released on May 18 2010 for XBOX 360 and almost two years later we have it on PC. A pretty interesting thing happened with Alan Wake. The game was announced back in 2005 ...Read More

Yet another AMD Catalyst 8.95 driver surfaced, so far we have seen 5 versions of this driver, each one with different build dates. Three of these drivers are in the Big Four (best performing drivers) and two of them are at least a month old (03 & 17 January). Earlier build of 8.95 (31 January) ...Read More

Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning is a action oriented Role Playing Game developed by Big Huge Games and published by EA and 38 Stuidos. Although the game is not very hardware intensive I thought I should see how the game performs / reacts under different conditions. Methodology Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning is updated to version 1.0.0.1. ...Read More

Last week was exhausting and I didn’t have the time necessary to do any benchmarks/tests, sorry for that. You might notice some changes in the methodology, I removed two tests: Unigine Heaven and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. but I added three more: 3DMark11, Unigine Sanctuary and Unigine Tropics. The reasons behind the changes are simple. Apparently Unigine Heaven ...Read More

A lot of you requested that I should redo the Skyrim Benchmark now that Bethesda released some long awaited updates. After the release of update #5 many of you reported better performance. When the game was initially released we all had lots of issues and most of them were CPU optimization related, bad implementation was ...Read More

Another 8.95 AMD Driver was leaked earlier today, available here. All driver versions (2D, 3D and OpenGL) have been incremented but just by 1-2 points. Improvements (if any) over 8.95 17 January can’t be very big, we’ll soon find out. Reports coming in are split, some users say these are bad drivers and others say ...Read More

Yesterday was a busy day for AMD’s Software/Driver Team, they released this month’s WHQL driver, 12.1 that is. 12.1 WHQL is actually the 8.93 driver released on the 5th of December, it took almost two months from the moment of the leak and the official release. AMD also released 12.2 Preview and recommended it for ...Read More

Earlier today a new 8.95 driver leaked, two weeks newer than the previous one. And what I and probably most of you noticed is the big OpenGL version incrementation. If I’m not mistaken this is the first driver with a 6.14.10.115xx OpenGL string. A lot of improvements (performance and bugs) done by AMD in the ...Read More

Yesterday, a new 11.12 AMD Catalyst that was built on 29 December surfaced, this driver is WHQL certified. Knowing that the best performing driver to date is a 11.12 one (11.12 Beta 18 Nov), I think it is a good opportunity to find the next best driver or even the best one yet. Having seen ...Read More

Just yesterday a driver from 8.95 branch leaked that was built on January 03 2012. To test this 8.95 driver I will compare it to AMD Catalyst 11.12 WHQL and AMD Catalyst 11.12a Preview. On this page you will find all information about drivers and methodology. Tested Drivers and Information Prior to installing a driver, ...Read More