ATI Catalyst 10.3a VS 10.2 Driver Performance benchmark & Download

ATI Catalyst 10.3a VS 10.2 Driver Performance benchmark & Download links

* This release of ATI Catalyst™ introduces support for the production version of Windows® 7 and Windows® Vista for notebooks featuring the ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2000 Series, ATI Mobility™ Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, and ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products.
* Supported by most major OEM and ODM notebook manufacturers

Driver features :

ATI Catalyst Control Center - ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements

Display Bezel Compensation
- Easy-to-use wizard shows users how to adjust their display layout to remove the pixels occupied by their display bezels
Per-Display Color Adjust
- Individual Color, Brightness and Contrast controls
Multiple ATI Eyefinity Groups
- Create more than one ATI Eyefinity group from multiple displays
Improved Display Configuration switching
- Support for ATI Eyefinity groups and the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center profile manager
Easy to toggle between cloned and extended desktop modes

ATI Catalyst™ support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses

AMD has updated it's Direct3D (Quad buffer support) driver to enable 3rd party middleware vendors such as iZ3D to output stereo L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per eye)

The biggest game to improve here is DiRT 2. AMD claimed an "up to" 20% improvement on Radeon HD 5800 series video cards in this game. We are seeing here a near 13% improvement, which is very good for a driver update to provide that kind of a boost. Unfortunately this was the only game to provide such a boost, in Aliens vs. Predator we are seeing around a 2% increase, which is a bit lower than AMD’s claim of a 5% performance increase, which is all rather small to begin with. Crysis: Warhead was on the list, and AMD claimed a 6% performance improvement. It seems here we are only seeing half that, close to 3%.

Benchmark tests

hardocp.com

Crysis warhead DX10 Benchmark Test: