For manufacturers of graphics cards, it's not only important to have a highly complex chip, their actual drivers need to be optimized to the last bit. Therefore it's a small wonder that GPU manufacturers release lots of driver updates during the year, making sure, there are no compatbility issues as well as increasing performance. In theses charts we tested 16 different drivers, and we will keep adding newer versions in future.
Test Setup
Hardware
| Mainboard |
- ASUS Maximus V Gene (BIOS 1802)
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| CPUs |
- Intel Core i7-3770K @ 4.0 GHz (Turbo On / HT On)
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| Memory |
- G.Skill Ares Dual Channel 2x8GB @ CL11-13-13-31-1T-Auto DDR3-2400 MHz
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| Graphic Cards (Driver) |
- AMD Radeon HD 7970
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| Drivers |
- AMD Catalyst 11.12 WHQL (8.921.5.0)
- AMD Catalyst 12.2 WHQL (8.950.0)
- AMD Catalyst 12.3 WHQL (8.951.0.0)
- AMD Catalyst 12.4 WHQL (8.961.0.0)
- AMD Catalyst 12.6 WHQL (8.980.0.0)
- AMD Catalyst 12.8 WHQL (8.982.0.0)
- AMD Catalyst 12.10 WHQL (9.2.0.0)
- AMD Catalyst 13.1 WHQL (9.12.0.0)
- AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta7 (12.100.17.0)
- AMD Catalyst 13.3 Beta3 (12.100.17.0)
- AMD Catalyst 13.4 WHQL (12.104.0.0)
- AMD Catalyst 13.5 Beta2 (12.102.3.0)
- AMD Catalyst 13.6 Beta2 (13.101.0.0)
- AMD Catalyst 13.X (13.15.100.1)
- AMD Catalyst 13.X (13.150.1.0)
- AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta (13.200.0.0)
- Intel Chipset Driver 9.4.0.1017
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| Games and OS |
- Windows 7 x64 (Up to date on the 25/07/2013)
- All games were up to date on the 25/07/2013)
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| HDD |
- OCZ Technology Octane 512 GB SSD
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PSU
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- Seasonic Platinum SS-1000XP / 1000 Watts
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