标题: 2012 第一棒，AMD 催化剂 12.1 预览版发布 [打印本页] 作者: Edison 时间: 2011-12-13 20:26 标题: 2012 第一棒，AMD 催化剂 12.1 预览版发布 AMD has announced the upcoming availability of a preview to its Catalyst 12.1 GPU drivers, up for download later today. Scheduled for launch in January 2012, these will be the first drivers supporting the firm's new Graphics Core Next architecture that will be present in the HD 7xxx line-up of GPUs, AMD's first major architectural redesign since the VLIW unified-shader architecture first implemented by the 2900XT (R600 series), almost five years ago.
This coming year is likely to be a challenging one for AMD's driver development team; despite repeated improvements in performance throughout 2011, AMD and previously ATI, have often lagged behind when it comes to stable drivers and 2011 was no exception, often with stable drivers unavailable at the launch of big name titles, the posting of faulty drivers and poor CrossFire support. The development team now has the challenge of combating a new architecture, which will no doubt present new behaviours requiring new driver workarounds and optimisations to be concocted.
Of course there are no HD 7xxx series graphics cards available just yet and so the focus of this preview is on general new functionality and fixes, below is a list of some of the changes and improvements:
AMD HD3D has been enabled for CrossFireX configurations.
Per application profiles for 3D and CrossFireX settings of Direct3D applications.
Simplified UI for video colour and quality control.
10 per cent performance improvement for Elder Scrolls: Skyrim when Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing is enabled on HD 6900 series.
The most exciting new edition, finally catching up with NVIDIA, who has had the functionality present in its drivers for many years, enabled by the Catalyst 12.1 drivers, is per-application profiles, allowing for tweaks and customisations to be made individually to each new application. These can be used to enable features that lack official support in-game or to tweak quality/performance settings. AMD's new implementation also allows one to set which CrossFire mode is to be used in each application.
E大可知道11.12正式版发布日期啊？