Ecco le principali novità contenute nell'ultima suite:
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ATI Catalystâ„¢ support for DirectCompute 10.1
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OpenGL 3.2 extension support
ATI Catalystâ„¢ support for DirectCompute 10.1
This release of ATI Catalystâ„¢ provides full support for DirectCompute 10.1 for the ATI
Radeonâ„¢ HD 4800 Series, ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4700 Series for both single card and ATI
CrossFireXâ„¢ supported configurations.
OpenGL 3.2 extension support
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Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.50
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BGRA vertex component ordering (GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra)
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Drawing commands allowing modification of the base vertex index
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(GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex)
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Shader fragment coordinate convention control
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(GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions)
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Provoking vertex control (GL_ARB_provoking_vertex)
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Seamless cube map filtering (GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map)
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Multisampled textures and texture samplers for specific sample locations
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(GL_ARB_texture_multisample)
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Fragment depth clamping (GL_ARB_depth_clamp)
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Geometry shaders (GL_ARB_geometry_shader4)
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Fence sync objects (GL_ARB_sync)
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transform_feedback2
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texture_cubemap_array
Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalystâ„¢ 9.12:
3DMark Vantage – overall performance improves as much as 9% on ATI Radeon HD
5800 and ATI Radeon HD 5700 series products. GT1 – Jane Nash performance
improves as much as 15% and FT4 – GPU Cloth improves up to 15%
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat – Performance improves as much as 6% on single
card configurations.