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Old 07-02-08   #1 (permalink)
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Default Beta catalyst 8.7 performance

came across these from a google search:
http://forums.legitreviews.com/about16247.html

anyone tried it with their 3870x2/3870 yet?
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nope...didn't take long for them te repalce 8.6!...lol

hope the 8.7 driver actually IMPROVE performance as the 8.6 drivers went backwards!
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where can we download the 8.7 bata from?
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nope...didn't take long for them te repalce 8.6!...lol

hope the 8.7 driver actually IMPROVE performance as the 8.6 drivers went backwards!
wat?! 8.6 didn't go backwards
for me, my 3dmark Vantage score went up by 1500 from 8.5 to 8.6. Also, my CoD 4 improved a lot as well as other games.
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wat?! 8.6 didn't go backwards
for me, my 3dmark Vantage score went up by 1500 from 8.5 to 8.6. Also, my CoD 4 improved a lot as well as other games.
Your score went up 1500 points? Wow that seems like quite a jump.
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Your score went up 1500 points? Wow that seems like quite a jump.
yea it's insane.

Heres my score with 8.5 drivers:
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Then here it is with 8.6:
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you can download the 8.7 Beta drivers here I'm about to try them out i'll post back on performance increase if any for the 4800 series.

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yea it's insane.

Heres my score with 8.5 drivers:
http://service.futuremark.com/result...eResultType=19

Then here it is with 8.6:
http://service.futuremark.com/result...eResultType=19
Almost had us....anyone notice the extra 4gig of ram in the 8.6 benchmark....
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Almost had us....anyone notice the extra 4gig of ram in the 8.6 benchmark....
I also noticed the first benchmark was vista 32-bit and the second was vista 64-bit. I dunno if that has any performance but I noticed it along with the ram.

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weird.....why is my cpu clock shows 266 when im at 3600....your shows 412
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