Performance evaluation of Catalyst 9.11 under Windows 7 system platform

On the same day that Radeon HD 5970 was officially released, AMD also released a monthly masterpiece of catalyst 9.11, but the focus of Catalyst 9.11 is not performance improvement, but added The new features of video decoding acceleration, the new features of the catalyst 9.11 are updated as follows:

1, hardware acceleration of H.264 format video encoding files supported by Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta (Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta Provides smoother video playback performance, lower resource utilization, and longer playback time. This feature supports ATI Radeon HD 5800 series, ATI Radeon HD 5700 series, ATI Radeon HD 4000 series

2, support high-quality video encoding conversion function, the new version of the driver enhanced ATI Video converter software, users can convert high-quality (1920x1080i @60i) video to iPod (320x240 @30p) format video available for entertainment devices, and conversion speed Fast, great quality.

In addition, Catalyst 9.11 has also officially added support for HD 5700 series graphics cards. Although we don't have much hope for performance testing, let's take a look at the Win7 platform brought to us by Tweaktown website. Under the catalyst 9.11 performance evaluation.

Test Platform:

Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.8GHz (190MHz x 20)

Radiator: Noctua NH-U12P

Motherboard : Gigabyte EX58-UD5

Memory: 3 X 2GB Kingston Hyper X PC3-16000 2000MHz DDR CL9

Hard Disk: Western Digital VelicoRapter 300GB

Video Card:

- Sapphire Radeon HD 5770

- Gigabyte Radeon HD 5870

- HIS Radeon HD 5850

Driver:

- Catalyst 9.10 Official Edition< BR>- Catalyst 9.10 5700 Beta Beta
- Catalyst 9.11

Operating System: Windows 7

Test Description:

Catalyst 9.11 adds HD 5700 series graphics card Support, but support for the card has not been provided in Catalyst 9.10, so in the card test we used the catalyst 9.10 5700 Beta test version as a comparison drive.

Although Radeon HD 5970 and Catalyst 9.11 were released on the same day, unfortunately, Catalyst 9.11 did not mention support for the 5970. AMD also provided a test version of the version 8.663.1 for the HD 5970. It is believed that the support of the HD 5970 will be officially provided in the next version of the catalyst driver. Considering that AMD's focus has shifted to the HD 5000 series of graphics cards, coupled with the time factor, we did not join the HD 4000 series of graphics cards in this test.