AMD releases Catalyst 10.10

After the official release of their latest graphics cards that have entered the series to 6 (6000) Graphics AMD is now also released the latest drivers, better known by the name of the ATI Catalyst to support the newest graphics card capabilities and also to boost graphics card performance for their old series. AMD also added some new features in it includes the HD3D AMD technology. 10:10 Catalyst has been available for download.

Here are some new additions and improvements found in the Catalyst 10:10:
1. Introduction of AMD HD3D Technology

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

3. Stereo 3D gaming support
- 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
- Requires 3D supported display and 3D Stereoscopic glasses
- 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 AMD HD3D Technology

4. 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)

5. 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

6. 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

7. Performance Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 10.10 release include:

a. 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

b. 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

c. 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

d. 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

e. 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
Highlights of the Linux AMD Catalyst™ 10.10 release include:

New Fiture :

Support for new Linux operating systems
This release of AMD Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
- openSUSE 11.3 support (production)
- Ubuntu 10.10 support (early look)