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[TPU] AMD Announces Never Settle Catalyst 12.11 Driver Update

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Catalyst 12.11 promises up to 15% performance improvements in the most modern games, such as Battlefield 3, DiRT Showdown, Sleeping Dogs, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, and more. With these improvements, AMD is claiming performance leads for all its top products, over NVIDIA's. The Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, for example, gains 20% performance advantage over GeForce GTX 680; HD 7970 gains 15% over GTX 670, and HD 7950 20% over GTX 660 Ti. The Never Settle driver, along with its complete release notes and download links will be updated a little later today.




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Too little to late? Hopefully not but this should make the current red team guys happy.
 
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This is cool. Nice to see AMD squeezing more from their current offerings.

 
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Originally Posted by hammerforged View Post

Too little to late? Hopefully not but this should make the current red team guys happy.
Too little too late? Funny you say that, considering AMD's products continue to offer better performance/price (the only figure that really matters) over nVidia's overpriced and voltage-control-less lineup.
 
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Made my morning much better.
 
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Nice, this HD7850 is going to love this.
 
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Interesting.

I would like to see what people say about their numbers compared to what AMD claims.

Sounds too good to be true, or their drivers were too bad to begin with.

Either way its good news to see AMD getting better after hearing about their financial results. We all need them in order to keep the markets competitive.
 
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Too little too late? Funny you say that, considering AMD's products continue to offer better performance/price (the only figure that really matters) over nVidia's overpriced and voltage-control-less lineup.
Not trying to start anything but looking at how close the next generation is, it would of been nice to see this support 3-4 months ago. All that matters is that its here now though.
 
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Not trying to start anything but looking at how close the next generation is, it would of been nice to see this support 3-4 months ago. All that matters is that its here now though.
Well, considering the performance margin between (in my case) the HD 7950 vs the 660ti and the 670, I have zero complaints. This is only the icing on the cake if it be true.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/08/23/galaxy_gtx_660_ti_gc_oc_vs_670_hd_7950/3
 
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Performance Summary

The graphs on this page show a combined performance summary of all tests and resolutions from previous pages. Each graph shows the tested card as 100% and all other cards' performance as relative to it. A sixth graph summarizes all tests in all resolutions to calculate the total relative performance of the review sample.

The relative improvements for each card are:
HD 7750: +4%
HD 7770: +5%
HD 7850: +4%
HD 7870: +10%
HD 7950: +7%
HD 7970: +7%
HD 7970 GHz: +7%

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pretty nice performance increase by just pure driver oh wow!
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Originally Posted by GanjaSMK View Post

What about 6xxx series cards? Performance boost for them too?
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(lowly 6850CF user here...
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These are only for the GCN architecture though these optimizations were the ones that were expected a few months back. If you guys remember last year when the 6k series came out they also got an optimization boost so this is kinda like that but for the 7k series.
 
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I guess AMD dont think your HD6000 series is worth it to go thru the driver to optimized the drivers for them too. Maybe will and just not mention it in the releases.
The optimized drivers for the HD 6000 series cards were released while the HD 6000 series cards were still in production. Same for the HD 5000 series, HD 4000 series, and every generation before that. NVIDIA does the same. It's not unreasonable at all.
 
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