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New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon™
Display Driver. These include the following:
*ATI Catalyst™ support for DirectCompute 10.1
*OpenGL 3.2 extension support
ATI Catalyst™ support for DirectCompute 10.1
This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides full support for DirectCompute 10.1 for the ATI
Radeon™ HD 4800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4700 Series for both single card and ATI
CrossFireX™ supported configurations.
OpenGL 3.2 extension support
ATI Catalyst™ Release Note Version 9.12 5
This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides support for OpenGL 3.2 extension support on the
ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD
4000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series.
Thefollowing is a list of OpenGL™ 3.2 features and extensions added in ATI Catalyst™9.12:
*Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.50
*BGRA vertex component ordering (GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra)
*Drawing commands allowing modification of the base vertex index
(GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex)
*Shader fragment coordinate convention control
(GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions)
*Provoking vertex control (GL_ARB_provoking_vertex)
*Seamless cube map filtering (GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map)
*Multisampled textures and texture samplers for specific sample locations
(GL_ARB_texture_multisample)
*Fragment depth clamping (GL_ARB_depth_clamp)
*Geometry shaders (GL_ARB_geometry_shader4)
*Fence sync objects (GL_ARB_sync)
*transform_feedback2
*texture_cubemap_array
Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 9.12:
3DMark Vantage – overall performance improves as much as 9% on ATI Radeon HD
5800 and ATI Radeon HD 5700 series products. GT1 – Jane Nash performance
improves as much as 15% and FT4 – GPU Cloth improves up to 15%
3DV:5800和5700系列提升9%
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat – Performance improves as much as 6% on single
card configurations
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