Catalyst 5.7 Drivers: Memory Limited Performance Improvements

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As you can see with the x600, there are some significant gains here. The most notable is with Half-Life 2 at16x12 with AA, which increases by exactly 25%. FarCry at 16x12 without AA goes up by 20.2% with Catalyst 5.7, and probably would have shown to increase even more with AA enabled, if we could have ran the benchmark. That's were we encounter the problem. While these are impressive gains, they still aren't very playable at 16x12 with AA on this card. At 12x10, however, HL2 and FarCry saw some decent gains: HL2 with AA, and FarCry without AA both went up by about 14%. But these were the only things that the driver upgrade seemed to help. With the other settings in HL2 and FarCry, as well as all the UT framerates, the increases were just not enough to be significant. Note that FarCry at 1600x1200 with AA enabled was not playable. Therefore, they were not included on the graph.