Listeners of the PC Perspective Podcast will have heard our thoughts on a specific feature of Catalyst 11.1 and AMD’s automatic usage of optimized tessellation features.  We did not touch on the actual performance or bug fixes that were included, such as the first WHQL support for the HD6900 series. 

Tweaktown did do the testing, so you can see what improvements were implemented and if it is worth the update.


“As we roll into another year and the first month comes to a close, it comes as no surprise that we begin to see a new iteration of the Catalyst driver suite. As you would’ve guessed, we’re dealing now with the 11 series driver and being both the first one and the January one, the exact name is the 11.1 driver.

This has been a little weird this time around, as AMD actually released a hot fix version of the driver before the official WHQL one. This is something we’re seeing more and more from them and it will be interesting if over time we continue to see “monthly” WHQL drivers, instead of just “monthly” driver updates. The thing is, over the recent months we’ve seen the official WHQL driver come followed by a bunch of non WHQL hot fix versions. We know the WHQL process takes time, and we would assume it also costs money, so it will be interesting to see if anything changes in 2011.”

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