Driver ATI Catalyst 9.3 disponibili

AMD ha reso disponbile per il download la release 9.3 dei propri driver Catalyst, compatibili con le schede video della famiglia ATI Radeon. Tra le novità implementate da ATI in questa versione segnaliamo il supporto al sistema operativo Windows 7 attraverso un set di driver unificato con Windows Vista, in versione a 32bit e a 64bit; con le schede delle serie ATI Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000 e HD 4000 è inoltre possibile ottenere incrementi prestazionali nell'esecuzione del clinet Folding@Home attraverso la GPU.

Il download è accessibile dai seguenti link:

• Catalyst 9.3 Windows Vista-7 32bit
• Catalyst 9.3 Windows Vista-7 64bit
• Catalyst 9.3 Windows XP 32bit
• Catalyst 9.3 Windows XP 64bit

Di seguito sono riportate le note fornite a corredo con i driver:

Performance improvements
- Lost Planet: Colonies - performance gains of up to 20% were seen on the ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series, and performance gains of up to 50% were seen on the ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series, ATI Radeon HD 4500 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 4300 Series of products
- Unigine Tropics Demo DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 - performance gains of up to 20% were seen on ATI CrossFireX configurations using the ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series of products

New Features

ATI Catalyst 9.3 - the industries first Unified graphics driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
- AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista - demonstrating AMD's Windows 7 graphics driver leadership and focus on delivering a stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD hardware
- Delivers full WDDM 1.1 support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products
- All future ATI Catalyst postings will deliver one single unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
(Please note that the AVIVO Video Converter is not currently supported under Windows 7)

ATI Catalyst 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements
- Using ATI Stream technology, owners of the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of graphics accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with ATI Catalyst 9.3

ATI Catalyst 9.3 - Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages
- As of ATI Catalyst 9.3 and future ATI Catalyst releases, the AMD Windows Vista HDMI audio driver is automatically included
- The HDMI audio driver will only be installed if the AMD graphics accelerator has an HDMI display connector and there is no 3rd party HDMI audio driver installed.

New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK
- AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators
- The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux - 32 and 64 bit variants
- The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications - samples are provided within the SDK
- The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site