X1950 AGP Cat Drivers 3DMark05 & FRAPS

[Reece]

Hi, some interesting results doing a test with 4 catalyst "driver only" versions using 3DMark05, the tests were done with exactly the same setup & sequence excluding the initial version.

My Specs:
Video Card is an AGP HIS ATI X1950 Pro Turbo IceQ 512mb.
2 Gig DDR400 PC3200 Ram
AMD Athlon 64 3700+
Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard

The steps:
1) Uninstall current driver then reboot.
2) Install via setup a selected Catalyst driver then reboot.
3) Setup Screen size, monitor freq (1152x864 75hz) then reboot.
4) run ATI Tray Tools with set profile.
5) Run 3DMark05 bench test.

The results:
Cat 6.9 - Came with card - 9617
Cat 6.12 - file size 11.9mb - 9597
Cat 7.1 - file size 12.2mb - 9553
Cat 7.3 - file size 10.3mb - 9592
Cat 7.7 - file size 14.4mb - 9512
Cat 7.8 - file size 14.6mb - 6191
Cat 7.10 - filesize 15.6mb - 9576
Omega 3.8.413 (7.09.1) - 9556 with fast write enabled 9575

Interesting that all steps were exactly the same only the driver was changed, I won't be using Cat 7.8 thats for sure!

NOTE: While the setup is the same, if anyone requests it, I can do a bench on other Cat versions.