With the release of Catalyst driver suite version 11.4 WHQL, AMD has finally gone public with the AMD Catalyst Preview Driver that you have been waiting for! and the driver so impressive it earned its own codename: Mjölnir I. The driver was initially advertised as providing (up to) 70% performance improvement in turn-based DirectX 11 strategy game Civilization V and (again, up to) 49% more Fps in the hugely successful console port Call of Duty: Black Ops which uses DirectX 9; and quite a few other games were also mentioned to profit from the new driver with double-digit percent increases - all of them popular benchmark titles to boot. When the word first hit the street, some reporting websites that got the information early conveniently forgot to mention, that these increases were achieved on a Radeon HD 6870 against the rather oldish Catalyst 10.9; a driver that did not even officially support the card that was launched in October 2010.
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