For anyone posting benchmarks, if you'd be so kind as to state which driver you were using previously and what benchmarks you got with that (assuming you know that info), in addition to the benchmark with the new official 8.7 drivers.

I'd like to see these to anyone have?

Give it some time to percolate, remember they just launched today.

Oh yeah, forgot about them coming out. Probably just 3DMark score increases and xfire fixes...I don't have any expectations for the singe GPU. This will give me something to do with my insomnia tonight

P.S. Guru3D used RivaTuner 2.09 in their 4870x2 review....does it support the R700 family now? I missed that announcement if it does...the last I heard it wasn't supporting them. Plus it doesn't say that it supports them...huh?



Performance Improvements

The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™.

* 3DMark Vantage: Performance increases of up to 20% is noticed in the Performance Preset on single card configured systems when using ATI Radeon™ HD 36xx or ATI Radeon™ HD 34xx products
* Company of Heroes DX10: Performance increases of 3% to 12% is noticed in specific maps on single card configured systems when using either an ATI Radeon™ HD 48xx, ATI Radeon ™ HD 38xx, or an ATI Radeon™ HD 36xx product
* Lost Planet DX10: Performance increases of 4% to 15% is noticed in specific maps on single card configured systems when using either an ATI Radeon™ HD 48xx, ATI Radeon™ HD 38xx, or an ATI Radeon™ HD 36xx product
* Call Of Duty 4 DX9: Performance increases of up to 4% in specific maps is noticed on single card configured systems when using an ATI Radeon™ HD 48xx product
* Lost Planet DX9: CrossFire™ scaling improves up to 1.7x and performance increases up to 80% across all Radeon™ products when AA and AF is enabled



Well, off the bat my temps are lower.


Huh...I didn't believe this at first but the air coming out of the back isn't even hot. I can't find my dig thermometer to measure the exhaust but it is hardly warm.

Did you mod the fan speed or is that by default in the driver now?

I had to boost the fan speed on the 4850 with the 8.6 driver in order to get the temps down - my other PC isn't as cool running as my main one though.

Haven't tried 8.7 yet

Wow you are running a 4GHz memory clock. Crazy. I would like to see how far the GPU will go OCing on air. The highest I ever got my 2900Pro 1GB was 815MHz. But I decided that was not a very good idea to run consitently.

Yeah I did mod the fanspeed. I like setting it to a select speed rather than have it bump up to 80% then drop to 5%. I didn't check though to see if the fan management was improved on the default profile.

I wasn't even paying attention to the memory clocks in GPUz. That is not correct. I slipped in the updated version 2.6 and it corrected it. This is with the AMDtool OC hack + fan fix. Let the card frying begin!

Running 2 4850's in Crossfire. Ran the Performance test at 1680x1050. With 3DMark Vantage I get a GPU Score of 7122 and a CPU Score of 4425. Previoulsly my GPU score was in the area of 4500 but I dont beleive i had things configured right when I originally ran it, I dont think all of the boost was from the drivers as much as me tweaking a few things.

Asus M3a32 Deluxe
Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (No Overclocking)
2x Radeon 4850'2 (3 Monitors, Crossfire for gaming)
4 Gigs DDR 2 800
Vista Ultimate X64

Anybody with a 4xxx series, if you have Crysis, try running it with AAQ on. Im seeing in other forums theres barely any hit using AA with crysis with these drivers and the 4xxxs

Wow, this cooler is a champ. I am liking this card more and more.

Wow, Spinach. Those temps are way cooler than what everyone is complaining about. How did you manage to swing 40C/55C??

you just make a profile and then adjust the fan speed in the profilename.xml

set fan control to manual and speed to whatever

Generally, that will bring the temps of the gpu die down a lot

I put OCZ freeze on when I first got the card and am running at 50% fan speed. Having a constant fan speed helps a lot. The auto setting cycle between 5% and 80% speeds...it is really loud and annoying when it vents the hot air at 80%. I can deal with a constant 50% when I am gaming though.