ATI's Catalyst 3.8 Drivers: ATI Sanctioned Overclocking

Aquamark3 Performance

The first time through, we ran this benchmark with overdrive off just to see what happened. Oddly enough, we got the exact same score. In case you're wondering why that’s odd, a frame rate identical to 3 significant digits is kind of a cool thing to happen twice (yes we know, we’ve been doing this for too long). Of course that does indicate that we see no performance gain out of the 3.8 drivers without overdrive. Now let’s see what happens when we turn on the juice:

Looking at the graph shows us we get about 1.3 fps with the overdrive enabled. Not too shabby.