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Ati Catalyst Preview
1. Sample roughly Feb 10
NDA lift roughly Feb 17
ATI Catalyst™ Software
Suite Preview
1 | ATI Catalyst 10.X preview | AMD Confidential
2. Introducing the 1-2 punch of Catalyst 10.2 and 10.3
Catalyst 10.2 target posting is Feb 17th
Catalyst 10.3 target posting is March 2010
We will sample press Catalyst 10.3 roughly Feb 10th so
that you can test all the features in the presentation
NDA lifts Feb 17th (or when we post Catalyst 10.2)
2 | ATI Catalyst 10.X preview | AMD Confidential
3. ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite Preview
Highlights
• ATI CrossFireX™ technology application profiles
• ATI CrossFireX and Eyefinity Support
• ATI PowerPlay™ technology support for the ATI Radeon™ HD
5970 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD
5700 Series using ATI CrossFireX™ technology
• ATI Catalyst™ mobility support
• ATI Eyefinity technology user interface enhancements
• New Display & Video enhancements
• Stereoscopic 3D support
• DisplayPort™ Audio
3 | ATI Catalyst 10.X preview | AMD Confidential
4. Application Profiles – ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite 10.2
• ATI CrossFireX™ technology application profiles are being removed
from the 3D driver to a separate .XML file to enable quick updates
from amd.com
• The latest application profile list will be posted on amd.com as a
separate .exe file that users can install to get the latest
application profiles
Catalyst 12 times a year update
Driver
Updates as often as required
CF profiles
4 | ATI Catalyst 10.X preview | AMD Confidential
5. ATI CrossFireX™ technology configurations featuring
ATI PowerPlay™ technology – ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 Software Suite
• Significant power saving benefits for users with ATI Radeon™ HD
5970 Series, ATI Radeon™ 5800 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700
graphics set-up in ATI CrossFireX™ technology configurations (up to
4 GPUs)
• Automatically enabled in the ATI Catalyst™ driver for Windows®
7 and Windows® Vista
• Sets secondary GPU(s) engine and memory clocks to very low
levels and reduces voltage when the GPU(s) are not in use
3D Mode Support Desktop Mode Support
Both GPUs are
in full use Sets the secondary
when playing GPU(s) in a very low
3D games power state when
not in use
X
5 | ATI Catalyst 10.X preview | AMD Confidential
6. ATI CrossFireX™ technology configurations featuring
ATI PowerPlay™ technology – ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 Software Suite
ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 series graphics running in a ATI
CrossFireX™ configuration featuring ATI PowerPlay™
Technology…
60
50
Power Usage (Watts) 40
30
20
10
0
ATI PowerPlay enabled on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800
the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 featuring ATI CrossFireX™
featuring ATI CrossFireX™ Technology
Technology
Save up to 12 Watts of power!
6 | ATI Catalyst 10.X preview | AMD Confidential
7. ATI CrossFireX™ technology with ATI Eyefinity*
technology - ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 Software Suite
• ATI CrossFireX™ technology works in conjunction with
ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology
• Enables users to take advantage of additional GPUs for
increased gaming performance when driving high-
resolution ATI Eyefinity display groups
*ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for panning across three
displays and to enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector
7 | ATI Catalyst 10.X preview | AMD Confidential
8. ATI CrossFireX® technology re-architecture
preview
Preview feature for the future – no end user scenario
currently
• Remove Multi-GPU code from the 3D driver component, into
a new Multi-GPU driver component
• Common ATI CrossFireX™ technology algorithms across
Direct3D and OpenGL APIs and all Graphics products
• Supported combinations of IGP and Discrete parts TBD
8 | ATI Catalyst 10.X preview | AMD Confidential
9. Display Features – ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 Software Suite
And the final list of 10.2 features…
• DisplayPort™ audio for DisplayPort panels
Now for 10.3 features…
9 | ATI Catalyst 10.X preview | AMD Confidential
10. Display Features – ATI Catalyst™ 10.3 Software Suite
• 3D Stereoscopic support
• AMD has updated it’s Direct3D driver to
enable 3rd party middleware vendors such as
iZ3D to output stereo L/R images at 120 Hz
(60 Hz per eye)
10 | ATI Catalyst 10.X preview | AMD Confidential
11. ATI Catalyst™ Control Center – ATI Catalyst™ 10.3
Software Suite
ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements
Display Bezel Compensation
• Easy-to-use wizard shows
users how to adjust their
display layout to remove the
pixels occupied by their
display bezels
Per-Display Color Adjust
• Individual color, brightness
and contrast controls
11 | ATI Catalyst 10.X preview | AMD Confidential
12. ATI Catalyst™ Control Center – ATI Catalyst™ 10.3
Software Suite
ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements
Multiple ATI Eyefinity Groups
• Create more than one ATI
Eyefinity group from multiple
displays
Improved Display
Configuration Switching
• Improved support for ATI
Eyefinity groups in ATI Catalyst
Control Center™ profiles
• Easily toggle between cloned
and extended modes
12 | ATI Catalyst 10.X preview | AMD Confidential
13. ATI Mobility Radeon™ Premium Graphics
ATI Catalyst™ 10.3 Software Suite
• Monthly ATI Catalyst™ releases for the
production version of Windows® 7 and
Windows ® Vista for notebooks featuring:
• ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2000 Series
• ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3000 Series
• ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4000 Series
• Future ATI Mobility products
• Supported by most major OEM/ODM
notebook manufacturers
13 | ATI Catalyst 10.X preview | AMD Confidential
14. Conclusion
ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite Preview
• Significant ATI CrossFireX™
technology improvements
• ATI Catalyst™ mobility support
• ATI Eyefinity technology
enhancements
• New display & video features
THANK YOU!
14 | ATI Catalyst 10.X preview | AMD Confidential