Catalyst Hotfix for HD 4800 mini-review
Hotfix’size is up to 63.2MB, including the CCC and driver.
　　4800 driver is open source this time, and this hotfix’s official page notes that the driver hasn’t been full tested by AMD . It’s possible that it’s a third-party driver. When we setup the hotfix, WHQL showed up as well.
　　Driver package and CCC differ from catalyst 8.6.
platform：
CPU:E6850
Mobo:P5Q DELUXE
VGA Card:Power Color HD 4850 512MB
RAM:Geil DDR2-800 2GB
3DMark Vantage result：
　　The hotfix gains about 1% improvement. Somewhat depressed comparing to the PhysX.
June 21st, 2008 at 10:20 pm
umm… it was meant to be a stable release to avoid crashes not offer huge performance gains..
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:19 am
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