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AMD Catalyst™ Software Update December 2010 | AMD Confidential: NDA Required
Stability Performance Innovation
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What is AMD Catalyst™ Software?
AMD Catalyst™ is AMD’s software suite for all AMD Radeon™ graphics products
AMD Catalyst™ has 3 major components:
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Released monthly
Microsoft® Certified
Supported on:
Desktop
Notebook
Chipset
OS Support:
Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP
Linux OpenCL driver
Unified Graphics Display Driver
AMD Catalyst™ Control Center
See footnotes at end of deck
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The Ultimate in Stability, Performance and Simplicity
Microsoft® certified drivers
Stability
Monthly improvements
Performance
New features & enhancements
Innovation
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Performance Innovation
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AMD Catalyst™ Software Stability
An independent 3rd party conducted stability runs with Microsoft® DCT WHWL tests to compare stability on AMD GPU hardware vs. Nvidia GPU hardware2
Tests compared AMD and Nvidia driver/configurations to determine GPU driver stability under extreme conditions without resulting in a system crash or failure
AMD passed each of the tests runs 100% of the time. The only failures observed were on Nvidia Configurations
75 80 85 90 95 100
NVIDIA AMD
Driver Test
Results
See footnotes at end of deck
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Performance
Innovation Stability
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AMD Catalyst™ Drivers: Performance Improvements
With monthly updates from AMD Catalyst™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 users saw huge gains in a number of games over the year3
AMD Catalyst™ 9.10 vs. 10.10 improvements:
Resident Evil 5: 68%
Crysis WarHead: 15%
World in Conflict: 14%
Metro 2033: 48%
Chronicles of Riddick: 15%
Aliens vs. Predator: 13%
Wolfenstein MP: 14%
Unreal Tournament 3: 15%
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Weekly AMD Catalyst™ application profiles
AMD Catalyst™ Application Profiles (CAP) released each week
No driver update required; the latest CAP release includes all previous application profiles
AMD Radeon™ graphics users get rapid access to the latest application profiles to maximize their multi-GPU performance or enable Anti-Aliasing in new titles
Simple naming convention – AMD Catalyst™ release, CAP#:
AMD Catalyst 10.12 CAP1 (released with Catalyst posting)
AMD Catalyst 10.12 CAP2
AMD Catalyst 10.12 CAP3
AMD Catalyst 11.1 CAP1
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AMD and DivX™ Accelerated
DivX Plus Codec Pack for AMD Radeon™ HD 6800 and HD 6900 Series Graphics Cards
Improved Video Experience
Benefits of using AMD Radeon™ HD 6800 and HD 6900 Series Graphics Hardware with DivX™ Plus Codec Pack
Lower CPU load
Reduced noise on home theater PCs
Playback of DivX content on devices with entry-level CPUs
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AMD Catalyst™ Software support for OpenGL 4.1
New features high-lights in OpenGL 4.1
Full compatibility with OpenGL ES 2.0 APIs
64-bit floating-point component vertex shader inputs for higher geometric precision
Multiple viewports for a rendering surface for increased rendering flexibility
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Performance
Innovation
Stability
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AMD Catalyst™ Control Center Evolution
2002: First UI to give complete control of GPU settings
2004: First Graphical UI in the
industry is released
2011: The ultimate in
usability & simplicity
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The New AMD Catalyst Control Center™
NEW! Two views – designed for mainstream and advanced views
NEW! Dynamically updates features based on available AMD hardware
AMD partnered with Infusion
Experts in User Interface design
Independent usability study comparing the old CCC and the new CCC
100% of users preferred the new CCC
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AMD Catalyst™ Software – Intuitive
“Task based” discovery model
Leverages UI concepts from web browsers
Navigation Bar
Search Engine
Pinned pages
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AMD Catalyst™ Software – Efficient
Quick navigation
Re-sizable UI
“One-click” access to any setting
Presets
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There’s Still More to Come…
Continued UI improvements
New Task based display management
Improved AMD Eyefinity experience
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The New AMD Catalyst Control Center™ (CCC)
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Release Plan:
Available in “AMD Catalyst™ 10.12 preview” on http://game.amd.com
http://game.amd.com will host a new CCC forum to collect end user feedback
Scheduled to become part of AMD Catalyst™ Software package in early 2011
Technical Highlights – Framework:
New CCC framework is built on the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and .NET 3.51
Built into Windows® 7
Windows® Vista users must update
Windows® XP is not supported (uses current AMD Catalyst Control Center™)
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Stability Performance Innovation
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Footnotes
1. Based on internal AMD data
2. Results from “Project Final Report: Catalyst Stability Testing” from Perseus Labs in Round Rock, TX
3. Measured on ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 using AMD Catalyst™ 9.10 and 10.10 drivers on the following platform: Intel Corei7 X980 (3.33GHz), Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Motherboard, 6GB DDR3 (1600MHz 9-9-9-24), Windows 7 RTM 64bit, using the following image quality settings:
2560x1600, 8xAA, 16xAF: DiRt 2, Metro 2033, World in Conflict, Wolfenstein MP, Crysis
1920x1200, 8xAA, 16xAF: Resident Evil 5, Crysis Warhead, Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.
1920x1080, 8xAA, 16xAF: Aliens vs. Predator
4. Measured on AMD Radeon™ HD 6870 using AMD Catalyst™ 10.10 drivers on the following platform: Intel Corei7 X980 (3.33GHz), Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Motherboard, 6GB DDR3 (1600MHz 9-9-9-24), Windows 7 RTM 64bit
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Disclaimer & Attribution
DISCLAIMER The information presented in this document is for informational purposes only and may contain technical inaccuracies, omissions and typographical errors. The information contained herein is subject to change and may be rendered inaccurate for many reasons, including but not limited to product and roadmap changes, component and motherboard version changes, new model and/or product releases, product differences between differing manufacturers, software changes, BIOS flashes, firmware upgrades, or the like. AMD assumes no obligation to update or otherwise correct or revise this information. However, AMD reserves the right to revise this information and to make changes from time to time to the content hereof without obligation of AMD to notify any person of such revisions or changes. AMD MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE CONTENTS HEREOF AND ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY INACCURACIES, ERRORS OR OMISSIONS THAT MAY APPEAR IN THIS INFORMATION. ATTRIBUTION ©2010 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, Catalyst, Catalyst Control Center, CrossFireX, PowerPlay, Radeon and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista, and DirectX are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and/or other jurisdictions. PCI Express is a registered trademark of PCI-SIG. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.