AMD updates Catalyst Drivers to 11.6

Advanced Micro Devices, AMD, have released that latest in their drivers for AMD and ATi graphics cards for Windows and Linux platforms. The update promises a whole bunch of performance increases including:

• Performance gains in Crysis of up to 7% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series single card configurations.
• Performance gains in F1 2010 of up to 8% in DirectX 11 mode on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series products in single and Crossfire configurations.
• Performance gains in Far Cry 2 of up to 5% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series products in single and Crossfire configurations.
• Performance gains in HAWX of up to 8% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series products in single and Crossfire configurations.
• Performance gains in the Unigine OpenGL tests of up to 10% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series single card configurations.

In addition to that it brings with it new features:

• AMD Steady Video
  • Steady Video is currently an AMD exclusive feature based on AMD APP Technology
  • By applying advanced algorithms behind the scenes, users do not have to deal with shaky or unstable video ever again!
  • Capabilities scale with hardware and are end user controlled
• Image Stabilization brought to YouTube!
• Decode Acceleration of MPEG-4 part 2 content
  • AMD has enabled decode acceleration of MPEG-4 part 2 content in Microsoft Video player applications (through MFT support) for all AMD Radeon 6000 Series.

AMD has always been a lot more frequent with its driver updates and these brand new drivers will go a long way to improve the competitiveness of its new 6000 series cards as well as rewarding consumers for choosing AMD over Nvidia.

The full Catalyst 11.6 AMD driver package can be downloaded from here or should you be using Linux not windows you can get it from here