Conclusion

It is funny to see that the Catalyst 11.12 WHQL from december 29th was performing as bad as the 11.12 from december 2nd while the one inbetween the so called Catalyst 8.921.2 RC11 from december 19th was as good as the Catalyst 12.x. So let's see what we noticed when testing the system after updating from the Catalyst 11.12 WHQL to the Catalyst 12.2:

AMD fixed the performance under TessMark with the Catalyst 12.2 where you see a major improvements from the 11.12 with a 2.6x higher score.

The Catalyst 12.2 did bring an increase of 7.5 % under 3DMark 11 and 9.58 % reguarding Unigine Heaven.

Alien vs. Predator had a boost of almost 9.3 %.

Under Batman: Arkham City we went from 61 fps to 63.

DIRT 2 saw his performance raised by 7.45 %.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 had also a little decrease of 5 %.

BattleField 3 is one that benefits more of those drivers with an increase of 21.6 %.

Crysis 2 benefits even more with 27 %.

A boost for 19 % was noticed on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat.

AMD fixed the bug under The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

which brings now no less than 50 % in performance.

So in the end the Catalyst 12.2 did well better than the 11.12 WHQL with an average of 14 % won in gaming performance.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 8 - Crysis 2 / Dragon Age 2
Page 2 - Test Setup & Specifications	Page 9 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. / The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim / StarCraft 2
Page 3 - Benchmarks and Games Settings	Page 10 - Power Consumption
Page 4 - 3D Mark 11 / 3D Mark Vantage	Page 11 - Summary Benchmark Results
Page 5 - Unigine Heaven / TessMark	Page 12 - Performance Index
Page 6 - Alien vs. Predator / Batman: Arkham City / Dirt 2	Page 13 - Conclusion
Page 7 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 / BattleField 3

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