Radeon HD 7900: Official Super Anti-aliasing for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11

[Roadhog]

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...C11Driver.aspx


Feature highlights of the 8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 driver

Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing Preview support for DirectX® 10 and DirectX® 11 applications
AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 users can now enable Super Sample Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing through the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center for DirectX® 10 and DirectX® 11 applications.
Applications must support in game Anti-Aliasing for the feature to work (Forced on Anti-Aliasing through the Catalyst™ Control Center is not supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications)

Performance highlights of the 8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 driver

8% (up to) performance improvement in Aliens vs. Predator
15% (up to) performance improvement in Battleforge with Anti-Aliasing enabled
3% (up to) performance improvement in Battlefield 3
3% (up to) performance improvement in Crysis 2
6% (up to) performance improvement in Crysis Warhead
10% (up to) performance improvement in F1 2010
5% (up to) performance improvement in Unigine with Anti-Aliasing enabled
250% (up to) performance improvement in TessMark (OpenGL) when set to “insane” levels

Resolved issues: highlights of the 8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 driver

Folding@Home: intermittent stability issues have been resolved for the OpenCL version of Folding@Home
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 no longer experiences minor flickering with Tri CrossFireX™ configurations
Dragon Age 2 no longer experiences minor flickering with Tri CrossFireX™ configurations
StarCraft 2 no longer encounters issues when quitting campaign with Tri and Quad CrossFireX™ configurations
BattleForge stability has been improved with Tri CrossFireX™ configurations
Improved stability when enabling / disabling CrossFireX™ and installing the AMD graphics driver on AMD CrossfireX™ configurations

Known Issues:

Just Cause 2 - Launching the application will cause a hang for single GPU and CrossfireX™ configurations

[Redeemed]

So, have you tried this out yet?

[Roadhog]

Originally Posted by Redeemed

So, have you tried this out yet?

Nope, Downloading it now, then I will run some benchmarks to compare to my old numbers.

[Redeemed]

Excellent! Looking forward to your findings.

[Roadhog]

Apparently AMD uploaded the same driver as before again...

[Roadhog]

The link has been fixed.

[Roadhog]

So, little teaser with BF3... Gained 9% on the min FPS, and 4% on AVG in BF3. Not much perf increase, but it is in line with the 5% stated on the driver notes so far. Plus, having SSAA in BF3 = awesome IQ.


7970, 11.12
Min: 90
Max: 146
Avg: 120

7970, 11.12 RC11
Min: 98
Max: 148
Avg: 125

7970, 11.12 RC11 + SSAA 4X
Min: 76
Max: 123
Avg: 98

7970, 11.12 RC11 + SSAA 4X + FXAA
Min: 65
Max: 117
Avg: 94

[Roadhog]

Did Tessmark.

11.12


11.12 RC11


So 311% improvement there.

[Roadhog]

Tested a game they didn't mention, still saw improvements.

Metro 2033
7970, 11.12
FPS: 46.67

7970, 11.12 RC11
FPS:52.67

Decent 13% improvement.

[Roadhog]

Unigine

7970, 11.12
FPS: 75.7

7970, 11.12 RC11
FPS: 80.0

Another 6% gain like mentioned in the release notes. I think i'm done with benchmarking.

[K007]

u got any screenshots with the new aa in action? the perfermance hit on min seems so minimal..but i guess since ure doing tri fire..we should divide by 3 to get single gpu?...

one thing about AA in bf3...the fxaa or what/eva is really ugly in the distance....all blurry...but mxaa takes a huge toll on ati..

[kesker01]

Originally Posted by Roadhog

Tested a game they didn't mention, still saw improvements.

Metro 2033
7970, 11.12
FPS: 46.67

7970, 11.12 RC11
FPS:52.67

Decent 13% improvement.

Is this with Dx11 2560x1440 4xAA Veryhigh and Tesselation and advanced depth of field on?

Can you please make a run with the above settings but with 4xSSAA ?