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1. Stability Performance Innovation
AMD Catalyst™ Software Update
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2. What is AMD Catalyst™ Software?
 AMD Catalyst™ is AMD’s software suite for all AMD Radeon™ graphics products
AMD Catalyst™ has 3 major components:
AMD Catalyst™ Control Center
 Released monthly
OS Support:  Microsoft® Certified
 Windows 7  Supported on:
Unified Graphics Display Driver  Windows Vista  Desktop
 Windows XP  Notebook
 Linux  Chipset
OpenCL driver
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3. The Ultimate in Stability, Performance and Simplicity
Stability Performance Innovation
Microsoft® Monthly New features &
certified drivers improvements enhancements
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4. Performance Innovation
Stability
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5. AMD Catalyst™ Software Stability
 An independent 3rd party conducted stability runs with Microsoft® DCT WHWL
tests to compare stability on AMD GPU hardware vs. Nvidia GPU hardware2
 Tests compared AMD and Nvidia driver/configurations to determine GPU driver stability
under extreme conditions without resulting in a system crash or failure
 AMD passed each of the tests runs 100% of the time. The only failures observed were
on Nvidia Configurations
NVIDIA AMD
Driver
Test
Results
75 80 85 90 95 100
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6. Stability Innovation
Performance
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7. AMD Catalyst™ Drivers: Performance Improvements
 With monthly updates from AMD Catalyst™
ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 users saw huge
gains in a number of games over the year3
 AMD Catalyst™ 9.10 vs. 10.10 improvements:
Resident Evil 5: 68%
Metro 2033: 48%
World in Conflict: 14%
Wolfenstein MP: 14%
Aliens vs. Predator: 13%
Crysis WarHead: 15%
Chronicles of Riddick: 15%
Unreal Tournament 3: 15%
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8. Weekly AMD Catalyst™ application profiles
 AMD Catalyst™ Application Profiles (CAP)
released each week
 No driver update required; the latest CAP
release includes all previous application profiles
 AMD Radeon™ graphics users get rapid access
to the latest application profiles to maximize
their multi-GPU performance or enable
Anti-Aliasing in new titles
 Simple naming convention – AMD Catalyst™ release, CAP#:
 AMD Catalyst 10.12 CAP1 (released with Catalyst posting)
 AMD Catalyst 10.12 CAP2
 AMD Catalyst 10.12 CAP3
 AMD Catalyst 11.1 CAP1
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9. AMD and DivX™ Accelerated
 DivX Plus Codec Pack for AMD Radeon™
HD 6800 and HD 6900 Series Graphics
Cards
 Improved Video Experience
 Benefits of using AMD Radeon™ HD
6800 and HD 6900 Series Graphics
Hardware with DivX™ Plus Codec Pack
 Lower CPU load
 Reduced noise on home theater PCs
 Playback of DivX content on devices
with entry-level CPUs
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10. AMD Catalyst™ Software support for OpenGL 4.1
 New features high-lights in OpenGL 4.1
 Full compatibility with OpenGL ES 2.0 APIs
 64-bit floating-point component vertex
shader inputs for higher geometric precision
 Multiple viewports for a rendering surface
for increased rendering flexibility
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11. Stability Performance
Innovation
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12. AMD Catalyst™ Control Center Evolution
2002: 2004: 2011:
First UI to give complete First Graphical UI in the The ultimate in
control of GPU settings industry is released usability & simplicity
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13. The New AMD Catalyst Control Center™
 NEW! Two views – designed for
mainstream and advanced views
 NEW! Dynamically updates features
based on available AMD hardware
 AMD partnered with Infusion
 Experts in User Interface design
 Independent usability study comparing the
old CCC and the new CCC
 100% of users preferred the new CCC
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14. AMD Catalyst™ Software – Intuitive
 “Task based” discovery model
 Leverages UI concepts from web browsers
 Navigation Bar
 Search Engine
 Pinned pages
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15. AMD Catalyst™ Software – Efficient
 Quick navigation
 Re-sizable UI
 “One-click” access to any setting
 Presets
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16. There’s Still More to Come…
 Continued UI improvements
 New Task based display management
 Improved AMD Eyefinity experience
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17. The New AMD Catalyst Control Center™ (CCC)
 Release Plan:
 Available in “AMD Catalyst™ 10.12 preview” on http://game.amd.com
 http://game.amd.com will host a new CCC forum to collect end user feedback
 Scheduled to become part of AMD Catalyst™ Software package in early 2011
 Technical Highlights – Framework:
 New CCC framework is built on the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and .NET 3.51
 Built into Windows® 7
 Windows® Vista users must update
 Windows® XP is not supported (uses current AMD Catalyst Control Center™)
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18. Stability Performance Innovation
Thank You
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19. Footnotes
1. Based on internal AMD data
2. Results from “Project Final Report: Catalyst Stability Testing” from Perseus Labs in Round Rock, TX
3. Measured on ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 using AMD Catalyst™ 9.10 and 10.10 drivers on the following platform:
Intel Corei7 X980 (3.33GHz), Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Motherboard, 6GB DDR3 (1600MHz 9-9-9-24), Windows 7
RTM 64bit, using the following image quality settings:
 2560x1600, 8xAA, 16xAF: DiRt 2, Metro 2033, World in Conflict, Wolfenstein MP, Crysis
 1920x1200, 8xAA, 16xAF: Resident Evil 5, Crysis Warhead, Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.
 1920x1080, 8xAA, 16xAF: Aliens vs. Predator
4. Measured on AMD Radeon™ HD 6870 using AMD Catalyst™ 10.10 drivers on the following platform: Intel Corei7
X980 (3.33GHz), Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Motherboard, 6GB DDR3 (1600MHz 9-9-9-24), Windows 7 RTM 64bit
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20. Disclaimer & Attribution
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