AMD Catalyst Software

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Stability Performance Innovation

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What is AMD Catalyst™ Software?

AMD Catalyst™ is AMD’s software suite for all AMD Radeon™ graphics products

AMD Catalyst™ has 3 major components:

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Released monthly

Microsoft® Certified

Supported on:

Desktop

Notebook

Chipset

OS Support:

Windows 7

Windows Vista

Windows XP

Linux OpenCL driver

Unified Graphics Display Driver

AMD Catalyst™ Control Center

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The Ultimate in Stability, Performance and Simplicity

Microsoft® certified drivers

Stability

Monthly improvements

Performance

New features & enhancements

Innovation



Stability

Performance Innovation


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

75 80 85 90 95 100

NVIDIA AMD

Driver Test

Results

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Performance

Innovation Stability


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%

Crysis WarHead: 15%

World in Conflict: 14%

Metro 2033: 48%

Chronicles of Riddick: 15%

Aliens vs. Predator: 13%

Wolfenstein MP: 14%

Unreal Tournament 3: 15%

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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 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



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



Performance

Innovation

Stability


AMD Catalyst™ Control Center Evolution

2002: First UI to give complete control of GPU settings

2004: First Graphical UI in the

industry is released

2011: The ultimate in

usability & simplicity


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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AMD Catalyst™ Software – Intuitive

“Task based” discovery model

Leverages UI concepts from web browsers

Navigation Bar

Search Engine

Pinned pages


AMD Catalyst™ Software – Efficient

Quick navigation

Re-sizable UI

“One-click” access to any setting

Presets



There’s Still More to Come…

Continued UI improvements

New Task based display management

Improved AMD Eyefinity experience



The New AMD Catalyst Control Center™ (CCC)

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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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Stability Performance Innovation


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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