A few days after the launch of Blizzards RTS Starcraft II, AMD has listened to their customers voicing their desire to play Starcraft II with Antialiasing enabled - something Blizzard had failed to provide for the game due to a deferred rendering scheme being used in conjunction with a DirectX 9 renderer.
Here's AMDs Hotfix page for Catalyst 10.7a:If you are into open standards as AMD is, you won't mind installing the Ati Stream SDK 2.1 (tested good with Catalysts 10.2 - 10.4 as of Aug. 1st 2010) to get support for OpenCL 1.1 on the following Radeon HD models:
5970 (single gpu only), 5870, 5850, 5830, 5770, 5750, 5670, 5570, 5450. But there's a small catch. In order to get OpenCL 1.1 working, you need as of now a special driver called Ati Catalyst 10.7 Update Driver for OpenCL 1.1 Support, which you can download here:Beta support for OpenCL 1.0 is available for Radeon HD 4890, 4870 X2, 4870, 4850 X2, 4850, 4830, 4770, 4670, 4650, 4550, 4350. The general support in the Stream SDK 2.2 is true as well for the corresponding FirePro and Radeon Mobility variants.
Ati Stream SDK 2.2 Windows XP 32 bit
Ati Stream SDK 2.2 Windows XP 64 bit
Ati Stream SDK 2.2 Windows 7/Vista 32 bit
Ati Stream SDK 2.2 Windows 7/Vista 64 bit
Ati Stream SDK 2.2 Linux 32 bit (openSUSE 11.2, Ubuntu 10.04/9.10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5/5.4)
Ati Stream SDK 2.2 Linux 64 bit (openSUSE 11.2, Ubuntu 10.04/9.10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5/5.4)
For all you part-time historians and archivars, AMD keeps their old drivers for quite a while at their site. Ati Stream SDK 2.2 Windows XP 64 bit
Ati Stream SDK 2.2 Windows 7/Vista 32 bit
Ati Stream SDK 2.2 Windows 7/Vista 64 bit
Ati Stream SDK 2.2 Linux 32 bit (openSUSE 11.2, Ubuntu 10.04/9.10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5/5.4)
Ati Stream SDK 2.2 Linux 64 bit (openSUSE 11.2, Ubuntu 10.04/9.10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5/5.4)
Archived Catalyst Drivers for Vista/7 x86 (8.1 - 10.6)
Archived Catalyst Drivers for Vista/7 x64 (8.1 - 10.6)
Archived Catalyst Drivers for XP x86 (8.1 - 10.6)
Archived Catalyst Drivers for XP x64 (8.1 - 10.6)
Also, there's the special page for the now inofficial AGP-versions of the drivers. God knows why they're not worthy of a WHQL-sign any more (my guess it's cost-related
). Anyway, here they are:For all you brave souls hanging onto your trusty Radeon 9x00, X300, X550, X600, X700, X8x0, X1K, X2100 and Radeon Xpress Integrated Graphics, there's hope. Sometimes, when the stars' constellations are aligned just right, a new driver for the officially no longer supported graphics chipsets is spawning at the following sites: Archived Catalyst Drivers for Vista/7 x64 (8.1 - 10.6)
Archived Catalyst Drivers for XP x86 (8.1 - 10.6)
Archived Catalyst Drivers for XP x64 (8.1 - 10.6)
Catalyst Legacy-Drivers for X1K and older cards for Vista/7 x86 (currently: 10.2)
Catalyst Legacy-Drivers for X1K and older cards for Vista/7 x64 (currently: 10.2)
Catalyst Legacy-Drivers for X1K and older cards for XP x86 (currently: 10.2)
Catalyst Legacy-Drivers for X1K and older cards for XP x64 (currently: 10.2)
Catalyst Legacy-Drivers for X1K and older cards for Vista/7 x64 (currently: 10.2)
Catalyst Legacy-Drivers for X1K and older cards for XP x86 (currently: 10.2)
Catalyst Legacy-Drivers for X1K and older cards for XP x64 (currently: 10.2)
And now for the "GPU-Tech.org added value", I am promising to deliver. Here's the supported standards and tech for most of the recent desktop Radeon cards (with Catalyst 10.7 drivers) - something that's not very well documented on the web, not to speak of being crammed into one single place.
Radeon HD 5970 (Cypress based):
DirectX 11 (Compute Shader 5.0, 4.1, 4.0) and lower,
OpenGL 4.0
OpenCL 1.1 (single-gpu mode only; with Stream SDK 2.2 and the special OpenCL 1.1 driver installed)
Ati Stream
Double Precision (at 1/5th speed), FMA (at 4/5th speed), triangle-setup at full speed
Radeon HD 5870/5850/5830 (Cypress based): OpenGL 4.0
OpenCL 1.1 (single-gpu mode only; with Stream SDK 2.2 and the special OpenCL 1.1 driver installed)
Ati Stream
Double Precision (at 1/5th speed), FMA (at 4/5th speed), triangle-setup at full speed
DirectX 11 (Compute Shader 5.0, 4.1, 4.0) and lower,
OpenGL 4.0
OpenCL 1.1 (with Stream SDK 2.2 and the special OpenCL 1.1 driver installed)
Ati Stream
Double Precision (at 1/5th speed), FMA (at 4/5th speed), triangle-setup at full speed
Radeon HD 5770/5750 (Juniper based): OpenGL 4.0
OpenCL 1.1 (with Stream SDK 2.2 and the special OpenCL 1.1 driver installed)
Ati Stream
Double Precision (at 1/5th speed), FMA (at 4/5th speed), triangle-setup at full speed
DirectX 11 (Compute Shader 5.0, 4.1, 4.0) and lower,
OpenGL 4.0
OpenCL 1.1 (with Stream SDK 2.2 and the special OpenCL 1.1 driver installed)
Ati Stream
FMA (at 4/5th speed), triangle-setup at full speed
Radeon HD 5670/5650/5570 (Redwood based): OpenGL 4.0
OpenCL 1.1 (with Stream SDK 2.2 and the special OpenCL 1.1 driver installed)
Ati Stream
FMA (at 4/5th speed), triangle-setup at full speed
DirectX 11 (Compute Shader 5.0, 4.1, 4.0) and lower,
OpenGL 4.0
OpenCL 1.1 (with Stream SDK 2.2 and the special OpenCL 1.1 driver installed)
Ati Stream
FMA (at 4/5th speed), triangle-setup at full speed
Radeon HD 5450 (Cedar based): OpenGL 4.0
OpenCL 1.1 (with Stream SDK 2.2 and the special OpenCL 1.1 driver installed)
Ati Stream
FMA (at 4/5th speed), triangle-setup at full speed
DirectX 11 (Compute Shader 5.0, 4.1, 4.0) and lower,
OpenGL 4.0
OpenCL 1.1 (with Stream SDK 2.2 and the special OpenCL 1.1 driver installed)
Ati Stream
FMA (at 4/5th speed), triangle-setup at less than full speed
Radeon HD 4890/4870/4850/4830/4730 (RV770/790 based): OpenGL 4.0
OpenCL 1.1 (with Stream SDK 2.2 and the special OpenCL 1.1 driver installed)
Ati Stream
FMA (at 4/5th speed), triangle-setup at less than full speed
DirectX 10.1 (Compute Shader 4.1, 4.0) and lower,
OpenGL 3.2
OpenCL 1.0 (with Stream SDK 2.1 installed)
Ati Stream
Double Precision (at 1/5th speed)
Radeon HD 4770 (RV740 based): OpenGL 3.2
OpenCL 1.0 (with Stream SDK 2.1 installed)
Ati Stream
Double Precision (at 1/5th speed)
DirectX 10.1 (Compute Shader 4.1, 4.0) and lower,
OpenGL 3.2
OpenCL 1.0 (with Stream SDK 2.1 installed)
Ati Stream
Double Precision (at 1/5th speed)
Radeon HD 4670/4650 (RV730 based): OpenGL 3.2
OpenCL 1.0 (with Stream SDK 2.1 installed)
Ati Stream
Double Precision (at 1/5th speed)
DirectX 10.1 (no Compute Shader though) and lower,
OpenGL 3.2
OpenCL 1.0 (with Stream SDK 2.1 installed)
Ati Stream
Radeon HD 4550/4350 (RV710 based): OpenGL 3.2
OpenCL 1.0 (with Stream SDK 2.1 installed)
Ati Stream
DirectX 10.1 (no Compute Shader though) and lower,
OpenGL 3.2
OpenCL 1.0 (with Stream SDK 2.1 installed)
Ati Stream
Radeon HD 3870/3850 (RV670 based): OpenGL 3.2
OpenCL 1.0 (with Stream SDK 2.1 installed)
Ati Stream
DirectX 10.1 (no Compute Shader though) and lower,
OpenGL 3.2
no OpenCL
Ati Stream
Double Precision (at 1/5th speed)
Radeon HD 3650 (RV635 based): OpenGL 3.2
no OpenCL
Ati Stream
Double Precision (at 1/5th speed)
DirectX 10.1 (no Compute Shader though) and lower,
OpenGL 3.2
no OpenCL
Ati Stream
Radeon HD 3470/3450 (RV615 based): OpenGL 3.2
no OpenCL
Ati Stream
DirectX 10.1 (no Compute Shader though) and lower,
OpenGL 3.2
no OpenCL
Ati Stream
Radeon HD 2900 XT/Pro/GT/OEM (R600 based): OpenGL 3.2
no OpenCL
Ati Stream
DirectX 10 (no Compute Shader though) and lower,
OpenGL 3.2
no OpenCL
Ati Stream
Radeon HD 2600 XT/Pro (RV630 based): OpenGL 3.2
no OpenCL
Ati Stream
DirectX 10 (no Compute Shader though) and lower,
OpenGL 3.2
no OpenCL
Ati Stream
Radeon HD 2400 XT/Pro (RV610 based): OpenGL 3.2
no OpenCL
Ati Stream
DirectX 10 (no Compute Shader though) and lower,
OpenGL 3.2
no OpenCL
Ati Stream
OpenGL 3.2
no OpenCL
Ati Stream
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