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Project Mjölnir is a multidimensional effort aimed at increasing performance and providing improved stability of the AMD Catalyst software.
The AMD Catalyst 11.4 early preview, code named Mjölnir I, already available to the public (link) with Mjölnir II and III to be available in the months to come. This driver encompasses major improvements for the entire AMD Radeon HD 6800 and 6900 Series. Users should see a boost, particularly with anti-aliasing and large resolutions in numerous titles:
Up to 70% performance improvement in Civilization V
Up to 49% performance improvement in Call of Duty: Black Ops
Up to 23% performance improvement in F1 2010
Up to 21% performance improvement in Wolfenstein MP
Up to 15% performance improvement in Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X
Up to 17% performance improvement in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Up to 28% performance improvement in Metro2033
Up to 33% performance improvement in Left 4 Dead 2
Up to 26% performance improvement in FarCry 2
Up to 15% performance improvement in Crysis Warhead
Up to 50% performance improvement in Unigine Heaven
Up to 22% performance improvement in Batman: Arkham Asylum
Up to 19% performance improvement in Aliens vs. Predator
But the goodness does not stop with this release. Mjölnir I is only the first in a series of drivers we intend to release this year, all of which should provide big performance boosts.
Source - AMD Email
I wonder why AMD would like all the new Northern Islands cards retested on the new high performance driver... something interesting coming up?
EDIT - To clarify, the performance increases indicated are not against Catalyst 11.2 but an earlier version of the Catalyst drivers, available before the launch of the AMD Radeon Hd 6800. Which would change the performance increases from 'woot' to 'tell me something I don't know'./EDIT |
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