Quick Test: AMD Catalyst Driver for Old Games. 11.12 vs 15.7.1
00:00 Intro and Specs
00:20 Return to Castle Wolfenstein (no AA)
00:50 Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (no AA)
01:20 Far Cry (8XAF)
01:50 Doom 3
02:20 Doom 3 Benchmark
02:50 Half Life 2 (16XAF)
03:20 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (AA Level3)
03:50 Quake 4
04:20 Quake 4 Benchmark
04:40 Call of Duty 2
05:10 Need For Speed: Most Wanted (4XAA set in Driver)
05:40 Bioshock (no AA)
06:10 Result Graph, AVG / MIN FPS
All games running in 1080p and highest settings with 4XAA for games that supports it
After testing some games on this system, we were not satisfied with the performance in certain games, such as Wolfenstein or Far Cry (it froze when starting the game and then experienced terrible FPS drops). We decided to try an older driver to see if it would improve performance.
Overall, the performance is very similar, yielding almost identical results with a small margin error. However, in Far Cry the FPS drops disappeared and Warcraft 3 maintains a stable 60 FPS.
Perhaps others have experienced this with GPUs from the same family (HD 6670 and 6570). For retro games, an older driver may work better.
Music: Stranger Things
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