ATI Catalyst 10.7 Windows 7 Driver Analysis

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Introduction

The 29th of July, how scary is that? - One month already down into the second half of the year and what a start to the back end of the year it's been. Really, out of nowhere we've seen NVIDIA bounce back with a model that everyone wants to get their hands on and while ATI at the moment continue to hold the value for money cards, when it comes to the high budget folks it looks like NVIDIA may have taken it in the most important category, the $200 bracket.

It's going to be an interesting second half and I'm sure we're going to see new models from both the green and red team. For now, though, let's look at the latest Cat drivers.

Performance Improvements

- Borderlands

Performance increases 3-5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 and ATI Radeon HD
5700 series single card and CrossFire configurations when anti-aliasing and
anisotropic filtering is enabled

Performance increases 3-8% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 single card and
CrossFire configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled

Performance increases 2-6% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 and ATI Radeon HD
5500 series single card configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering
is enabled

Performance increases 2-10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 series single card and
CrossFire configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled