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Catalyst 3.2 vs Catalyst 3.1 Performance Report

Others/Miscelleneous by jmke @ 2003-03-15

ATI recently released new Catalyst drivers. One of our readers ran a couple of benchmarks on his Radeon 9000 and shares his experiences!

Intro + Q3/SS/3D

The system:

ATI Released new drivers and we took them for a spin on the following system:
- Athlon XP1800+
- ECS K7S6A
- 768Mb DDR
- Radeon 9000 128Mb
- Windows XP

Download the Catalyst 3.2 driver-suite here

Lets start the benching:

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2fps difference? Error margin. No difference in performance seen here..

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We set the min. value of the graph a bit higher to show you a difference.. otherwise you would have thought they were the same.. no difference here either, remember, these drivers were released for stability and quality updates

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The High quality SS benchmark doesn't show a difference either, how exciting :)

Let's see if the results change when we use Unreal Tournament 2003 for our next set of benchmarks...

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