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HD 7970 Gaming Performance: AMD Catalyst 12.2 and 11.12 WHQL added

Published by Christian Ney on 21.06.12

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Conclusion

It is funny to see that the Catalyst 11.12 WHQL from december 29th was performing as bad as the 11.12 from december 2nd while the one inbetween the so called Catalyst 8.921.2 RC11 from december 19th was as good as the Catalyst 12.x. So let's see what we noticed when testing the system after updating from the Catalyst 11.12 WHQL to the Catalyst 12.2:

AMD fixed the performance under TessMark with the Catalyst 12.2 where you see a major improvements from the 11.12 with a 2.6x higher score.

The Catalyst 12.2 did bring an increase of 6.8 % under 3DMark 11 and 8.4 % reguarding Unigine Heaven.

Alien vs. Predator had a boost of almost 8 %.

Under Batman: Arkham City we went from 53 fps to 55.

DIRT 2 saw his performance raised by 13 %.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 had also a little improvement of 5.5 %.

BattleField 3 is the one that benefits more of those drivers with an increase of 23.29 %.

Crysis 2 and Dragon Age II had both a boost of 7 %

A boost for 17 % was noticed on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

So in the end the Catalyst 12.2 did well better than the 11.12 WHQL with an average of 10 % won in gaming performance.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 8 - Crysis 2 / Dragon Age 2
Page 2 - Test Setup & Specifications	Page 9 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. / The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim / StarCraft 2
Page 3 - Benchmarks and Games Settings	Page 10 - Power Consumption
Page 4 - 3D Mark 11 / 3D Mark Vantage	Page 11 - Summary Benchmark Results
Page 5 - Unigine Heaven / TessMark	Page 12 - Performance Index
Page 6 - Alien vs. Predator / Batman: Arkham City / Dirt 2	*Page 13 - Conclusion*
Page 7 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 / BattleField 3

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