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
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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:
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ATI Radeon HD 4000 and HD 5000 series Graphics
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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 series (and higher) Graphics
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ATI Radeon HD 3000 series integrated graphics (and higher)
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Video De-blocking support
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Reduces blocking artifacts seen in low-bit rate video during playback
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Supported on ATI Radeon HD 5000 series Graphics
Mosquito noise removal
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Reduces mosquito noise seen in highly compressed progressive video, during playback
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Supported on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 series Graphics
Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3
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ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 5000 series Graphics
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ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on ATI Radeonâ„¢ 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
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ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on ATI Radeon HD 5000 series Graphics
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ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on ATI Radeon HD series Graphics
Support for new Linux operating systems
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This release of ATI Catalystâ„¢ driver for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:Â
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RHEL 5.5 production support
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2D performance enhancements
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ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers a new architecture for 2D acceleration. Â The new 2D architecture delivers fast windows resizing with Compiz/Visual-Effects and general 2D performance improvements in all AMD supported Linux distributions.