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Last week ATI released a new version of its Catalyst software. The latest ATI Catalyst 5.12 graphics card driver along with usual performance enhancements and bug fixes sports optimizations that take advantage of dual-core and multi-threaded processors. DriverHeaven.net has investigated performance impact of the optimizations in several popular game titles, namely Battlefield 2, FarCry and Half-life 2.

“In order to see the theoretical increases possible with the dual core driver we need to test at some very specific settings so that it is our CPU that causes a bottleneck in our test system. The settings we are going to use today are 1024x768 with no AA or AF. When you pair that with our test system its pretty easy to see that the GFX card wont cause any bottleneck at all,” indicated the author.

Full story: xbitlabs.com | driverheaven.net (full article)

-Its about time the end-user who's been buying Dual Core CPU's got their moneys worth, seems though that the Pentium D CPU's got the most benefit from the benchmarked applications. Its still not enough, but its a start