ATI Catalyst Driver Comparison 3.x

Others/Miscelleneous by A-star @ 2003-11-26

We take the last 6 ATI Catalyst driver releases for a spin on a Radeon 9600 Pro, using a wide range of benchmark programs and games we try to find out which one gives you the best performance. 10 Benchmarks, 3 resolutions, 6 drivers, 180 results sorted for your viewing pleasure!

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Aquamark 3.0

Aquamark 3.0 benchmark

Standard Benchmark was run with defaults settings.
After each run there was a reboot.

Madshrimps (c)

3.4 Catalyst
3.5 Catalyst
3.6 Catalyst
3.7 Catalyst
3.8 Catalyst
3.9 Catalyst
1600x1200
12.64
12.65
12.65
12.67
12.69
12.64


Madshrimps (c)

3.4 Catalyst
3.5 Catalyst
3.6 Catalyst
3.7 Catalyst
3.8 Catalyst
3.9 Catalyst
1280x1024
16.59
16.62
16.62
16.65
16.65
16.59


Madshrimps (c)

3.4 Catalyst
3.5 Catalyst
3.6 Catalyst
3.7 Catalyst
3.8 Catalyst
3.9 Catalyst
1024x768
21.39
21.51
21.51
21.55
21.58
21.60


The differences between each driver are so small that we can't say there is much improvement between each driver (0.1 difference in the test is not what I call improvement).

So no clear winner here.
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