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 Radeonâ„¢ 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 Radeonâ„¢ HD 5000 series Graphics

  • 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

  • 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 Catalystâ„¢ 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.