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Schwarz
02-13-2006, 08:54 AM
According to rage3d.de
You can gain a very small performance increase with the new Catalyst 6.2 compared to 6.1.
The difference in synthethic benchmarks is marginal (3dmark 05 06)
but for F.E.A.R. and Serious Sam 2 you can get a nice little performance leap Particularly with Anti-Aliasing and Anistropic Filtering.
These benchmarks have been made with a X1900 XT.

If you are interested here are the system specs.

Processor
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego (1024KB L2-Cache)
2200MHz

Main board
Epox EP-9NPA+ Ultra
nForce 4 Ultra

Main memory
2x OC-Wear Big Twins Ultra 1024MB
2-3-2-5 1T @ 400 MHz

Here is the link but its in german...
http://www.rage3d.de/artikel/vergleiche/catalyst/seite1.php

- Schwarz

pym
02-13-2006, 11:43 PM
I have Nvidia, so this does not concern me, but I would wait a little to hear some reactions and comments regarding these before risking my system and installing them.
I wonder if they truly boos performance as claimed...