Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 13.8 Beta 2 for Windows®:

• Saints Row 4: Performance improves up to 25% at 1920×1280 with Ultra settings enabled
• Splinter Cell Blacklist: Performance improves up to 9% at 2560×1600 with Ultra settings enabled
• Final Fantasy XIV: Improves single GPU and CrossFire performance
• Van Helsing: Fixes image quality issues when enabling Anti-Aliasing through the AMD Catalyst Control Center
• Far Cry 3 / Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon: Resolve corruption when enabling Anti-Aliasing through the Catalyst Control Center
• RIPD: Improves single GPU performance
• Minimum: Improves CrossFire performance
• Castlevania Lords of Shadow: Improves CrossFire performance
• CrossFire: Frame Pacing feature – includes improved performance in World of Warcraft, Sniper Elite, Watch Dogs, and Tomb Raider
• Doom 3 BFG: Corruption issues have been resolved

Known Issues of The AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta2 Driver for Windows:

• CrossFire configurations (when used in combination with Overdrive) can result in the secondary GPU usage running at 99%
• Enabling CrossFire can result in the PCI-e bus speed for the secondary GPU being reported as x1
• Bioshock Infinite: New DLC can cause system hangs with Frame Pacing enabled – disable frame pacing for this title to resolve

Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 13.8 Beta for Windows®:

• Support for AMD CrossFire™ Frame Pacing
  • Frame Pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in a CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace.
  • Enabled through the AMD Catalyst Control Center; Globally or on a per application basis.
  • Frame Pacing is enabled by default.
  • Supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications, and resolutions up to and including 2560×1600 (single display).
• OpenGL 4.3 support – full support for the OpenGL 4.3 feature set
• Performance improvements found in AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta for Windows:
  • Metro: Last Light – improves performance up to 7% on the AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series
• OpenGL support for User Profiles and Catalyst Application Profiles:
  • Users can now create per application 3D setting profiles for OpenGL applications.
  • OpenGL applications are now supported through Catalyst Application Profile updates (for single GPU and AMD CrossFire configurations).
• AMD Enduro Technology enhancement – Catalyst Control Center will now show which applications are active on the Performance GPU, and the Power-Saving GPU
• Resolved issues:
  • Resolved crash when enabling AMD CrossFireX™ on some AMD 970 platforms
  • Improved stability for AMD Radeon HD 7790
  • Resolved intermittent mouse cursor corruption when rapidly moving the cursor across window borders

System Requirements:

• Windows® 8 (32 & 64-bit versions)
• Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit versions with SP1 or higher)

Download it at AMD web site.

Even though the Frame pacing for Crossfire systems was the most expected feature for the new 13.8 BETA, it also improves performance for Metro Last Light and includes very welcome features for users using a single video card, like OpenGL 4.3 support, Catalyst Application Profiles (CAP) support for OpenGL games and the ability to set custom settings for OpenGL games in Catalyst Control Panel on a per-application basis. These new features were already available for Direct3D games.

Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 13.8 Beta for Windows®:

• Support for AMD CrossFire™ Frame Pacing
  • Frame Pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in a CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace.
  • Enabled through the AMD Catalyst Control Center; Globally or on a per application basis.
  • Frame Pacing is enabled by default.
  • Supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications, and resolutions up to and including 2560×1600 (single display).
• OpenGL 4.3 support – full support for the OpenGL 4.3 feature set
• Performance improvements found in AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta for Windows:
  • Metro: Last Light – improves performance up to 7% on the AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series
• OpenGL support for User Profiles and Catalyst Application Profiles:
  • Users can now create per application 3D setting profiles for OpenGL applications.
  • OpenGL applications are now supported through Catalyst Application Profile updates (for single GPU and AMD CrossFire configurations).
• AMD Enduro Technology enhancement – Catalyst Control Center will now show which applications are active on the Performance GPU, and the Power-Saving GPU
• Resolved issues:
  • Resolved crash when enabling AMD CrossFireX™ on some AMD 970 platforms
  • Improved stability for AMD Radeon HD 7790
  • Resolved intermittent mouse cursor corruption when rapidly moving the cursor across window borders

System Requirements:

• Windows® 8 (32 & 64-bit versions)
• Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit versions with SP1 or higher)

Download it at AMD web site.

Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 13.6 Beta for Windows®:

• Product support for the new AMD A10, A8, A6, and A4 Series APUs on desktop and mobile platforms.
• AMD Enduro technology enhancement:
  • Reduces power consumption when running Windows 8 Metro applications – detects when Metro applications have idled and moves them to the integrated graphics component.
  • AMD Catalyst Control Center now shows the hardware and software Information pages for AMD discrete GPUs when paired with Intel integrated graphics.
• Includes AMD GPU & AMD APU OpenCL 1.2 acceleration in Adobe Premiere PRO CC.
• Support for AMD Wireless Display for Windows 8 and future Windows releases:
  • Supported on AMD Elite A-Series APUs with select Broadcomm and Atheros Wireless adapters.
  • AMD Wireless Display Technology provides the ability to wirelessly display local screen content onto a remote screen in real time.  Compliant receiver/TV required.
• Resolved issues:
  • Resolves HDMI Audio drop-out issues on the AMD Radeon HD Series products.
  • Resolves issues with the AMD Catalyst Control Center showing Audio Display messages at incorrect times.

Download it at AMD web site.

The latest CAP can be used with Catalyst 13.6 BETA.

Description:
This release of AMD Catalyst™ delivers support for the latest AMD CrossFireX™, AMD Dual Graphics, and AMD Enduro™ profiles in a separate executable file ensuring users have access to the absolute latest set of profiles installed on their PC.

New profiles added to this release:

• Call of Juarez Gunslinger – Improves CrossFire performance
• Company of Heroes 2 – Disables CrossFire support
• Far Cry 2 (DX9) – Improves single GPU performance
• Resident Evil 6 – Improves single GPU performance
• Call of Duty 4 – improves single GPU performance
• Darksiders 2 – Fixes the corruption in game menu under certain CrossFire configurations
• Minimum – Improves single GPU performance

Download it at AMD Game

- via Rage3D

New Catalyst 13.5 Beta 2 are available for download from AMD servers.

NOTE! You must un-install AMD Catalyst 13.4 (if you have already installed AMD Catalyst 13.4) before installing AMD Catalyst 13.5 Beta

Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 13.5 Beta Driver for Windows®

Performance gains seen on the entire AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series for the following:

• Recommended for the AMD Radeon™ HD 7990 graphics processor
• Extensive optimizations for Far Cry® 3 Blood Dragon
• Far Cry 3: Improves performance up to 4% with Anti-Aliasing enabled
• Shogun II: Improves performance up to 20% with 8x Anti-Aliasing enabled
• Tomb Raider: Improves performance up to 6%
• Bioshock: Improves performance up to 6%
• Borderlands 2: Improves performance up to 18%
• Corruption is no longer seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7790 when TressFX is enabled in Tomb Raider

For more information about this driver set, visit AMD support site at http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst13-5WINBetaDriver.aspx

Download the Catalyst 13.5 Beta 2 for desktop and mobile from following links:

Catalyst 13.5 Beta 2 @ AMD (163.4MB)

Catalyst 13.5 Beta 2 for Enduro @ AMD (162.7MB)

NOTE! This Driver is provided “AS IS” and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith.

AMD proudly announced today the Radeon™ HD 7990, the world’s fastest graphics card. It features dual AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series GPUs, 6GB of ultra-fast GDDR5 and native support for 5×1 AMD Eyefinity technology.

Image: techPowerUp!

The Radeon HD 7990 sports dual Tahiti chips with a total of 4096 Stream processors running at 1Ghz clock speed and 6GB of GDDR5 video memory clocked at 6Ghz. It measures about 12-inches long and uses a standard dual slot cooling solution with 3 fans for a quieter operation.

The Radeon HD 7990 also includes eight free games with the card: BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Crysis 3 Hunter Edition, Far Cry 3, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution: about US$ 300 worth of downloadable software!

With Radeon HD 7990 introduction, AMD also presented a new Catalyst driver 13.5 beta 2, addressing some frame pacing issues found on Crossfire systems. The driver is expected to be released at second half of 2013 but already made a debut in a prototype form in Radeon HD 7990 launch reviews. It’s still a work in progress but results are quite promising.

Radeon HD 7990′s reviews on the web:

• Guru3D
• techPowerUp!
• Tom’s Hardware

The price tag is US$ 999 and it’s expected to become available in a couple of weeks.

A new Catalyst 13.4 driver is available to download, the driver is certified by Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Labs (14/Apr/2013) and supports all AMD Radeon 5000/6000/7000 series cards, including the almighty AMD Radeon HD 7990.

Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 13.4

Includes support for the for the AMD Radeon HD 7990 Series and AMD Radeon HD 7790 Series

AMD Catalyst 13.4 includes support for the following OpenGL 4.3 features:

• GL_ARB_compute_shader o GL_ARB_multi_draw_indirect
• GL_ARB_shader_storage_buffer_object o GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays
• GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object o GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility
• GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location o GL_ARB_fragment_layer_viewport
• GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata o GL_ARB_program_interface_query
• GL_ARB_shader_image_size o GL_ARB_stencil_texturing
• GL_ARB_texture_buffer_range o GL_ARB_texture_query_levels
• GL_ARB_texture_storage_multisample

Performance Highlights of AMD Catalyst 13.4 (vs. AMD Catalyst 13.1)

Includes all of the performance improvements found in AMD Catalyst 13.3 Beta 3 on the AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series

• Significantly improves latency performance in Skyrim, Borderlands 2, Guild Wars 2, Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution
• Resolves Texture flickering seen in DirectX9.0c applications.
• Resolves slight corruption seen in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for CrossFire and single GPU configurations
• Fixes graphical corruption on objects and textures in Call of Duty – Black Ops 2

For more information, see the following links:

Windows Vista/7/8/ 64-bit: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonaiw_vista64.aspx

Download 64-bit driver @ AMD

Windows Vista/7/8 32-bit: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonaiw_vista32.aspx

Download 32-bit driver @ AMD

AMD posted a new beta for Catalyst 13.3 driver set, it includes all previous fixes and performance improvements found on beta 2 plus a fix for OpenGL (e.g. Photoshop with hardware acceleration)

Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 13.3 Beta3 Driver for Windows®

• Resolves OpenGL application issues seen with the AMD Catalyst 13.3 Beta2 driver

Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 13.3 Beta2 Driver for Windows®

• Improve performance in Sim City 5 up to 16 percent
• Improves performance in Far Cry 3 up to 5 percent
• Improves latency performance issues seen in Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution
• Resolves slight corruption seen in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for CrossFire and single GPU configurations

For the full release notes, visit AMD support site at http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/amdcatalyst13-3winbetadriver.aspx

Download the Catalyst 13.3 Beta 3 here

NOTE! This Driver is provided “AS IS” and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith.

AMD just released a new beta driver. The new Catalyst 13.2 BETA 7 includes fixes for an intermittent hang when CrossFire is used in Crysis 3 after its first patch.

A tweet from @AMDRadeon says BETA 7 is the recommended driver for upcoming Tomb Raider: Survivor Reborn, an AMD Gaming Evolved title.

Download it here

Catalyst 13.2 BETA 7 contains all previous fixes and performance improvements found on earlier versions of Catalyst 13.2 drivers. A separate CAP is not needed.