AMD has launched Catalyst 11.6 for Windows and Linux platforms, promising performance boosts and adding features to the mix.
Features finding their way into Catalyst 11.6 for Windows, are:
- AMD Steady Video
- Steady Video is currently an AMD exclusive feature based on AMD APP Technology
- By applying advanced algorithms behind the scenes, users do not have to deal with shaky or unstable video ever again!
- Capabilities scale with hardware and are end user controlled
- Image Stabilization brought to YouTube!
- Decode Acceleration of MPEG-4 part 2 content
- AMD has enabled decode acceleration of MPEG-4 part 2 content in Microsoft video player applications (through MFT support) for all AMD Radeon 6000 Series
From a performance angle, here's what AMD tells us to expect:
- Performance gains in Crysis of up to 7% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series single card configurations.
- Performance gains in F1 2010 of up to 8% in DirectX 11 mode on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series products in single and Crossfire configurations.
- Performance gains in Far Cry 2 of up to 5% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series products in single and Crossfire configurations.
- Performance gains in HAWX of up to 8% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series products in single and Crossfire configurations.
- Performance gains in the Unigine OpenGL tests of up to 10% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series single card configurations.
As for Linux platforms, Catalyst 11.6 adds support for the following OSes:
- SLED/SLES 10 SP4 support (production)
Catalyst 11.6 for Windows can be downloaded from here, and Catalyst 11.6 for Linux, can be downloaded from here.
