Haha guys, too busy with the 6 Series, don't forget about the latest driver...

CATALYST 10.10 OFFICIAL DRIVER IS AVAILABLE!

Download here:
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/downloads.aspx
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Videocards---A...-Vista_c31.html


New Features

Introduction of AMD HD3D Technology

Blu-ray 3D support
o This release of AMD Catalyst™ provides support for Blu-ray 3D playback
o Requires Blu-ray 3D player software, 3D supported display and 3D Stereoscopic glasses
o Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series

Stereo 3D gaming support
o This release of AMD Catalyst™ provides support for Stereo 3D gaming via 3rd party Stereo 3D Conversion Software from Dynamic Digital Depth (DDD) and iZ3D
o Requires 3D supported display and 3D Stereoscopic glasses
o Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series

*More information on AMD HD3D Technology, including Stereo 3D Conversion Software and a list of supported displays, can be found at www.amd.com/hd3d


Introduction of AMD Catalyst™ Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology Edition
There will now be two variants of the AMD Catalyst package available:
AMD Catalyst™ – includes the Direct3D, OpenGL, Display driver and AMD Catalyst Control Center components
AMD Catalyst™ Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology Edition Edition (same as ATI Catalyst, but includes the OpenCL driver) – Everything found in AMD Catalyst, plus the OpenCL driver
Users can still grab all of the individual AMD Catalyst components as well (which will also include the OpenCL driver as well)


Video accleration for HD WMV video content
This release of AMD Catalyst™ provides video acceleration support for WMV HD (Microsoft video codec) under Windows 7
Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products


Enahnced Dynamic Contrast video controls
This release of AMD Catalyst™ enhances the Dynamic Contrast setting found in the Catalyst Control Center by adding support for histogram based detection


Performance Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 10.10 release include:

Metro 2033™
· Performance increases up to 7% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations
· Performance increases up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire configurations
· Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series in DirectX 11 and 10 modes
· Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series in DirectX 11 and 10 modes
· Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series in DirectX 11and 10 modes

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.™ : Call of Pripyat Benchmark
· Performance increases up to 7% on single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products

Unigine™ Heaven
· Performance increases up to 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled
· Performance increases up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled

World in Conflict™
· Performance increases up to 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series
· Performance increases up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series

Aliens vs. Predator™ DirectX 11 Benchmark
· Performance increases up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire
· Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire
· Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series
· Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series
· Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series

Crysis Warhead®
· Performance increases up to 9% on Single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products with anti-aliasing enabled

Far Cry™ 2
· Performance increases up to 7% on Single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products

U lazy people, here are the pricelist, can be found at Lowyat.net front page if you look around...not the forum, but the web-page itself btw..

http://images.lowyat.net/pricelist/czone.pdf
http://images.lowyat.net/pricelist/cycom.pdf
http://images.lowyat.net/pricelist/jayacom.pdf
http://images.lowyat.net/pricelist/pczone.pdf
http://images.lowyat.net/pricelist/startec.pdf
http://images.lowyat.net/pricelist/viewnet.pdf

About that promo 5850, that's something to grab for CF'ing...
It seems some 5870/5850 owner's including myself are pretty quite about their GC despite all these 68xx talk...but for sure the silence will be broken once 69xx is out.

5850 user (like me) bought the card last year October (or last year. period.) with the price remains the same for a whole year, that's plain great!
It's the recent other remaining 5850 user's who bought the card in mid~ish 2010 who are feeling down a bit.

Paid nearly RM1k for the performance of the 5850 is not that bad during the 2009-2010 era (yeah, graphic card are easily outdated!), and still not that bad to still keep using it for the next 1 year.

BUT I keep my finger crossed until the 69xx series will be launched near Xmas, prolly will make the 58xx users regret for sure IF the price is reasonable! ....but speaking for the 58xx user's let's hope not

Single 5850 still a bit overkill for 19", perhaps a 6850, but since 5850 has became cheaper (2nd-hand price), better get that. Still, the 5850 is future proof for the next 1~2 years...
Been using 5850 on my 24" for a year now, excellent fps, and the last time I OC'ed was last April, because of this game, METRO 2033...

This post has been edited by JoBigShow: Dec 13 2010, 11:37 PM

Probably the 6970 is a more expensive version of 6950 so AMD could rake in more $$$, but of course they underestimate the consumers for being smart enough to figure out this unlockability of the 6950 to the 6970.

Btw any 5850 user's here feel poised to buy 69xx?
I am one and still felt that the 5850 (OC'ed to 5870's performance) is a good card until today....dunno why, I got the cash but don't feel temped to buy the 6950 even when I visit LY Plaza quite often...
the 5850 still gets high fps on the current games. Getting above 50fps+ on FO:NV on High settings for e.g. (and commendable fps with Ultra settings)

It's actually half correct to say the 6 series 'replaces' the 5 series, the 6 Series technically fills the gaps between the cards within the 5 series range.
Like been displayed on the post above me...the y-axis (saturn85).

But IMO i think the 6850 truly replaced the 5830 since market wise the 5830 seems too expensive for it's performance, therefore had to be booted out, plus paying the cheaper price for 6850 for better/equal performance to the more expensive 5830 is more favourable to the consumers.

I like the 6870 bridging the gap between 5850 and 5870, plus you can easily OC the 6870 to equalize the 5870's performance.

The addition of 6950 and 6970 are logical, since the 5970's gap with 5870 is rather huge, therefore need two cards to bridge the gap; and it's more flexible for consumer's this way.

The 6990, is just to piss off Nvidia I guess