Catalyst 3.2 vs Catalyst 3.1 Performance Report
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!
Review
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:
2fps difference? Error margin. No difference in performance seen here..
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
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...
UT2003 & Conclusion
UT2003:
Low Quality benches:
4.4% Speed increase! Not bad
High Quality benches:
The DM-Inferno shows an increase of 300% ? Impressive to say the least!
Still a respectable 3.5% gain in performance
Although not earth-shattering improvements are seen, If you want the ultimate performance for your ATI video card we recommend upgrading to this 3.2 version!
Serious Sam, 3DMark2001 and Q3A didn't show much difference at all! Guess these drivers are more for the UT minded people out there!
Share your experiences here @ the forums!