AMD Driver Charts - 13.10 Beta Tested
Category : ATI/AMD
Published by Christian Ney on 01.10.13
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 19 different drivers, and we will keep adding newer versions in future.
Test Setup
Hardware
Mainboard
ASUS Maximus V Gene (BIOS 1802)
CPUs
Intel Core i7-3770K @ 4.0 GHz (Turbo On / HT On)
Memory
G.Skill Ares Dual Channel 2x8GB @ CL11-13-13-31-1T-Auto DDR3-2400 MHz
Graphic Cards (Driver)
AMD Radeon HD 7970
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)
AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta2 (13.200.11.0)
AMD Catalyst 13.9 WHQL (13.152.0.0)
AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta (13.200.11.0)
Intel Chipset Driver 9.4.0.1017
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)
HDD
OCZ Technology Octane 512 GB SSD
PSU
Seasonic Platinum SS-1000XP / 1000 Watts
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3DMark - Fire Strike Performance
3DMark - Fire Strike Extreme
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Unigine Heaven 4.0 Extreme Preset
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BattleField 3
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Borderlands 2
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Bioshock Infinite - Benchmark
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Crysis 3
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Call of Duty Black Ops 2
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DIRT Showdown - Benchmark
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Far Cry 3
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Sleeping Dogs - Benchmark
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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Metro: Last Light - Benchmark
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Power Consumption
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Performance Index