Presso il sito di AMD è disponibile l'ultima release, la 10.6 del Catalyst Software Suite per schede grafiche ATI/AMD Radeon HD.
Ecco l'elenco delle novità:
GPU acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1
AMD GPU acceleration of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 delivers smooth high definition video playback and reduces system resource utilization on notebook and desktop platforms featuring AMD graphics including:
ATI Radeon HD 4000 and HD 5000 series Graphics
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 series (and higher) Graphics
ATI Radeon HD 3000 series integrated graphics (and higher)
Video De-blocking support
Reduces blocking artifacts seen in low-bit rate video during playback
Supported on ATI Radeon HD 5000 series Graphics
Mosquito noise removal
Reduces mosquito noise seen in highly compressed progressive video, during playback
Supported on ATI Radeon HD 5000 series Graphics
Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3
ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on ATI Radeon HD 5000 series Graphics
ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on ATI Radeon HD series Graphics
New Linux Features
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst driver for Linux 10.6 release includes:
Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3
ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on ATI Radeon HD 5000 series Graphics
ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on ATI Radeon HD series Graphics
Support for new Linux operating systems
This release of ATI Catalyst driver for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
RHEL 5.5 production support
2D performance enhancements
ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers a new architecture for 2D acceleration. The new 2D architecture delivers fast windows resizing with Compiz/Visual-Effects and general 2D performance improvements in all AMD supported Linux distributions.