AMD has announced some remarkable improvements to the performance of their Radeon graphics cards with the release of the Catalyst 7.10 drivers.  The drivers will be released later this week and promises some notable percentage gains in both Crossfire and single card configurations.

The following figures are according to AMD, take them with a pinch of salt.

• Battlefield 2142 Crossfire performance improves 5-23% on the ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 2600, ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 2400 and ATI Radeonâ„¢ X1300/X1550 series

• Call of Duty 2 performance improves up to 6.7% on both single card and Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 2600 and ATI Radeon HD 2400 configurations

• Call of Juarez DirectX 10 Crossfire performance improves up to 42% and single card performance improves up to 34% on all ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 2000 series products.

• Company of Heroes DirectX 10 Crossfire performance improves up to 80% on all ATI Radeon HD 2000 series products and single card performance improves as much as 31% on ATI Radeon HD 2900 and ATI Radeon HD 2600 products

• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Crossfire performance improves as much as 23% on ATI Radeonâ„¢ 1000 series products and single card performance improves as much as 23% on both ATI Radeon HD 2000 and ATI Radeon 1000 series products

• FEAR Crossfire performance improves as much as 16% on the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX, ATI Radeonâ„¢ X1650 XT, ATI Radeon HD 2400 series and ATI Radeon X1300/X1550 series

• Supreme Commander Crossfire performance improves up to 30% on all ATI Radeon HD 2000 and ATI Radeon 1000 series products. The ATI Radeon X1650 and ATI Radeon X1300/X1550 series products see even greater improvements of 82% or more.

While the good people at Extreme Tech found that the improvements did not quite live up to the outlandish claims, there was a significant performance jump as much as 13% - 19% in the best cases.  Considering that their prices are substantially lower, could this latest driver package actually persuade budget conscious buyers to abandon Nvidia? It will be interesting to find out.

Source: AMD via Extreme Tech, Legit Reviews (Image)

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