ATI Catalyst 5.12 Performance Preview @ Anandtech

Anandtech has received the latest ATI beta driver for Radeon graphics cards. The interesting part of this is that ATI claims to have introduced dual core optimizations into this driver build just as Nvidia did in their recently introduced ForceWare series 80 drivers. Here is i a snippet:

There are really quite a few questions to be asked about this driver. After adding up everything we wanted to do, the sheer number of tests we had laid out was enormous. In an effort to be more efficient ourselves, we decided to break our analysis of the 5.12 driver up. This article is meant as a quick look at the benefits of ATI's dual core enhancements on a few select games running on X1K series hardware. We will compare this driver to the old one as well as dual core performance to single core performance.