AMD Catalyst 12.10 WHQL & 12.11 Beta Released

[Al Capwn]

Hey everyone, just wanted to spread the word that Catalyst 12.10 WHQL and Catalyst 12.11 beta have just been released and if you have a Radeon 7000 series card there are some massive improvements for you in the 12.11 betas, here's a little tidbit of the release notes below.

Performance Highlights of the AMD CATALYST 12.11 BETA Driver

10%-15% more performance in Battlefield 3 in most cases
More than 20% in certain missions and sequences (Comrades)
Up to 7% more performance in Metro 2033
Up to 10% more performance in DIRT Showdown
Up to 8% more performance in Sleeping Dogs
Up to 12% more performance in Civilization V
Up to 10% more performance in StarCraft II
Up to 8% more performance in Sniper Elite: V2

Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 12.11 Beta

Resolves performance issues (where GPU activity runs at lower values than expected) seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7870
AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro™ Technology supported platforms has been substantially improved for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications. An updated driver for 7970M users featuring AMD Enduro™ Technology with additional DirectX 9 performance improvements will be released soon.

3DMark Vantage – Up to 15%
3DMark 11 – Up to 12%
AvP – Up to 11%
Battlefield 3 – Up to 25%
Crysis 2: Up to 45%
DiRT Showdown – Up to 62%
ETQW – Up to 8%
Hard Reset – Up to 8%
Just Cause 2 – Up to 90%
The Chronicles of Riddick – Up to 4%
Shogun 2 – Up to 56%
Sniper Elite V2 – Up to 60%
Tom Clancy’s HAWX – Up to 56%
Unigine Heaven – Up to 33%
Wolfenstein – Up to 9%

There have been a few creditable review sites that have looked at the 12.11 betas and the performance improvements do indeed seem to only apply to the latest CGN 7000 series cards but I wouldn't let that stop you from trying them out.

Catalyst 12.11 Beta Windows 7 & 8 download link

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...etadriver.aspx

Catalyst Application Profile (CAP) 12.10 download link

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa...-profiles.aspx

and for those who don't like beta drivers or have XP (please upgrade already!) find your proper version of Catalyst 12.10 WHQL here

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa...downloads.aspx

Edit: For those who downloaded 12.11 beta already, AMD has just released Beta version 8. The same download link applies. There is also a new 12.11 CAP1 released, however it's not on the official AMD website yet so I don't want to post a link.