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AMD Catalyst Mobility Display Driver 11.12 Live on Softpedia

As we were estimating in the last piece of news, AMD were really busy these days with the  December display drivers, the 11.12 release. Now, you can download these drivers optimized for notebooks, and start enjoying better graphics.There are quite a lot of fixes in this release and if you're interested in f...

14 December 2011
04:05 GMT

Get Hold of the AMD Catalyst Application Profiles 11.11 CAP 3

AMD have gotten us used with releasing quite a lot of new software duringt the last months so here's another one: the CAP 3 Application Profiles related to the 11.22 Catalyst display driver.This edition sports a separate executable file for the CrossFireX profiles so users can gain access to the newest profiles ...

10 December 2011
04:38 GMT

Download AMD ATI Catalyst Application Profiles 11.9 CAP 4

AMD may not be churning out new drivers very quickly, but that doesn't seem to apply to CrossFile profiles, what with a new update having come out just now. Then again, it might be more accurate to say that it has been out for about a day already, but it took AMD some time to make things official. Basically,...

28 October 2011
02:27 GMT

Download AMD Catalyst 11.1 Graphics Drivers

Since it's been a while since AMD last updated its Catalyst graphics drivers for its Radeon GPUs, the company has just gone official with the latest release, 11.1, that offers a few interesting fixes and updates that will enable your graphics cards to deliver an enhanced level of performance in certain situation...

27 January 2011
04:15 GMT

AMD Brings ATI Brand Back from the Dead

Quite a lot of people were saddened by the news that AMD was going to kill off the ATI brand, which it had purchased relatively recently, but it seems that things are not that simple, the red logo-ed Array Technologies Incorporated still making some surprise appearances, here and there.So, as Fudzilla reports, it see...

15 November 2010
15:41 GMT

ATI Catalyst 10.9 Brings Initial Support for RHEL 6

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced last evening, September 15th, yet another improved version of its ATI Catalyst Linux display driver, available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. This release brings early look support for RHEL 6.ATI Catalyst 10.9 introduces initial support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (...

16 September 2010
04:05 GMT

Apple Switch to ATI Graphics Prompts Analysts to Cut NVIDIA Rating

Standard & Poor’s analyst Clyde Montevirgen is keeping his $9 price target NVIDIA stock, while cutting his rating to Strong Sell (from Hold), one of the factors being Apple’s shift to other vendors for graphics solutions, Barron’s reports.“Considering our concern about weakening consumer PC de...

31 August 2010
04:01 GMT

AMD Decides to Drop the ATI Brand

Though it has been present on all of AMD's graphics products since ATI was acquired by the chip maker, the ATI brand will apparently fade out of existence starting with the new generation of hardware that the Sunnyvale, California-based company intends to release.As consumers no doubt know, ATI is one of the tw...

30 August 2010
02:36 GMT

ATI Catalyst 10.8 Driver Leaks Southern Islands HD 6000 Codenames

ATI just released the latest graphics driver, ATI Catalyst 10.8, and while some may not have expected it, this release actually carried a very specific piece of information, namely the complete list of codenames for the HD 6000 Series of GPUs, otherwise known as Southern Islands.By now, end-users may know that Advan...

26 August 2010
06:22 GMT

Download AMD ATI Catalyst 10.8 WHQL Driver Suite

Each month, AMD releases a new version of the ATI Catalyst drivers, and it seems that that time is finally upon us once more, the company having now unleashed the ATI Catalyst 10.8 Software Suite, the full set of WHQL-certified drivers for Radeon GPUs.The new software suite is available in versions for Windows XP 32...

26 August 2010
06:02 GMT

XFX 4GB HD 5970 Black Edition Pictured, Case is Gun-Shaped

XFX has been known to be working on a firearm-themed iteration of the dual-GPU ATI Radeon HD 5970, namely the HD 5970 Black Edition with 4GB of GDDR5 VRAM, and it seems that the wait for its arrival may finally soon end, now that a limited edition package has been pictured. As end-users may know, the HD 5970 is, eve...

25 August 2010
08:30 GMT

PowerColor Makes EyeFinity Cheaper with DisplayPort to DVI Adapter

Knowing of the price issues associated with Eyefinity setups, and the fact that the necessity for displays with distinct input options can limit one's choice when buying suitable monitors, PowerColor decided to create and release an adapter that transforms a DisplayPort into a single-link DVI.The ATI Eyefinity ...

25 August 2010
03:53 GMT

AMD Supposedly Plans to Drop the ATI Brand

After years of good marketing performance under AMD's wing, to the point where it currently holds 51.1% of the discrete graphics market, the ATI brand my see the end of its life, if the rumors suggesting that AMD is planning on dropping this brand turn out to be true. While this may just be a case of an inflate...

24 August 2010
10:50 GMT

Dual-GPU AMD ATI Radeon Card to Debut by Year's End

Though the ATI Radeon HD 5970 is, at present, the most powerful video board on the market, as far as reference models go at least, ATI seems to be getting ready to reveal its successor, a dual-chip board based on the Southern Island Architecture that will supposedly come out before the end of 2010.So far, very littl...

23 August 2010
05:01 GMT

Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 FleX Supports Four Monitors

Since Club 3D so quaintly offered a customized NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 card just a short time ago, it was expected that one of AMD's partners would immediately follow up with an ATI model, and Sapphire decided to take it upon itself to unveil the Radeon HD 5770 FleX, a video controller that stands out from the f...

12 August 2010
03:27 GMT

ASUS HD 5550 Cards Make Battlefield Bad Company 2 Cheaper

Even though hardware makers always seem to enjoy causing awe among consumers with their high-grade products, particularly on the video card front, they also make sure not to neglect the lower segments. Thus, there is always a steady inflow of new video boards, high-end and low-end alike, and ASUS has just contribute...

10 August 2010
04:57 GMT

AMD Proud of Apple’s Choice to Include ATI Radeon Solutions in New iMacs, Mac Pros

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced that Apple has selected its graphics solutions for the new line of iMac and Mac Pro desktop computers introduced last month. Powered by an ATI Radeon card for “outstanding power and performance,” Apple’s new-configuration iMacs are already available for ...

6 August 2010
10:23 GMT

Download ATI Catalyst Display Driver 10.7

As it happens every month, ATI, business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, has completed and brought out the latest version of its ATI Catalyst Driver Suite for graphics adapters. The new version is known as Catalyst 10.7 and brings along a fair number of improvements and fixes for certain issues that existed in all ...

27 July 2010
04:51 GMT

AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series Is Just a Tweaked HD 5000

Not too long ago, it was revealed that AMD wasn't planning on reducing the prices of its ATI Radeon HD 5000 series graphics cards because it was already preparing its next generation of adapters. Known as the HD 6000 line, this new series is supposedly going to come out by October and will be the real competitor...

19 July 2010
06:40 GMT

Next-Generation ATI Cards Slated For October

Soon after NVIDIA unleashed the GeForce GTX 460 graphics adapter, Advanced Micro Devices finally had enough of a reason to reduce the price of its HD 5830 card. After that, even NVIDIA's own GTX 480 got cheaper, but AMD didn't exactly follow up with any new price cuts. Naturally, one would assume that the r...

16 July 2010
08:30 GMT

Price War Between ATI and NVIDIA Starts

The IT industry is already in an uproar after NVIDIA, and its manufacturing partners, practically flooded the market with an entire stream of GeForce GTX 460 video cards. This newcomer is NVIDIA's first mainstream offer and has been quite well received by reviewers. Also, for ATI loyalists, such an event usuall...

14 July 2010
08:31 GMT

Club 3D HD 5450 Video Board Features ATI Eyefinity

NVIDIA has already covered the high-end market and will soon unleash the GeForce GTX 460, which should take care of the mainstream to some extent. This means that, quite soon, the entry-level market will be the only segment exclusively covered by Advanced Micro Devices, at least as far as DirectX 11 graphics are con...

8 July 2010
09:49 GMT

ATI Has High Hopes for Stereoscopic 3D

When some technology appears to start gaining popularity, companies are usually skeptical and very careful about taking their chances on the nascent market. On the one hand, those that play their cards right usually end up in very favorable positions and, of course, richer. On the other hand, it takes a single misste...

19 June 2010
05:11 GMT

Sapphire HD 5500 Mainstream Graphics Series Expanded

With the high-end market no longer solely under its thumb, ATI, business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, has naturally decided to exploit those areas that NVIDIA has not yet managed to get to. Currently, there are no mainstream Fermi boards and, unsurprisingly, partners of the Sunnyvale, California-based company are...

17 June 2010
04:00 GMT

HIS HD 5500 Silence Graphics Cards Cost Under $100

When DirectX 11-capable graphics cards first came out, there were only a few models available and even those weren't exactly approachable by others besides enthusiasts and hardcore gamers. Fortunately, Advanced Micro Devices was quick to follow up with mainstream and entry-level cards. The ones that seem to have...

7 June 2010
08:54 GMT

MSI R5870 Lightning Gets 2GB GDDR5

Now that the GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 are, more or less, widely available, NVIDIA chose Computex as the site for the introduction of the GTX 465. This card moves the Fermi architecture closer to the mainstream. Meanwhile, ATI's partners aren't sitting idly by, of course. With the GTX 480 as the fastest s...

2 June 2010
02:36 GMT

Owners of ATI Cards Now Enjoy NVIDIA GPU PhysX

PhysX can definitely be seen as one of NVIDIA's technologies that stirred the most controversy on the video and gaming market. While it definitely brings a high level of realism to games, this physics processing platform is not as popular as it could be because it only works on PCs that use an NVIDIA GPU for gra...

28 May 2010
09:44 GMT

Overclocked PowerColor PCS+ HD 5550 Now Available

Whenever the marketing performance of a piece of hardware is threatened, either by competing products or simply because said product is “getting old,” the next logical step is for its maker to either launch a device meant to replace it or refine the existing one. The ATI Radeon HD 5550 may not exactly be ...

20 May 2010
08:31 GMT

NVIDIA GPU PhysX Support on ATI Radeon Impossible

For a long time, consumers have been hoping that a day would come when NVIDIA's GPU PhysX physics processing technology would become supported on ATI Radeon hardware. In fact, in the past, there were even reports that NVIDIA and ATI would work together on developing this. Whatever rumors survived until this day,...

6 May 2010
08:37 GMT

AMD's ATI FirePro RG220 Can Connect to the Network

NVIDIA and ATI have both been doing their best to grab as much of the professional graphics market as possible. As such, they have kept unleashing newer, faster and more efficient cards. Advanced Micro Devices is now trying to raise the stakes a bit, by enabling CAD, digital content creators and financial service use...

4 May 2010
04:20 GMT

Download ATI Stream SDK v2.1

As the fellows over at Advanced Micro Devices are getting ready for the launch of their much-anticipated next-generation Fusion platform, the company is providing developers with yet another release of its Stream SDK. The new ATI Stream Software Development Kit v2.1 has been designed to support OpenCL on both AMD GPU...

3 May 2010
06:54 GMT

Download ATI Catalyst 10.4 Display Drivers

In the recent months, AMD has surprised everybody by releasing a series of new Catalyst drivers, designed to provide users of ATI Radeon graphics cards with a bunch of new features. Both the Catalyst 10.2 and 10.3 releases have been received with enthusiasm by users, thanks to the performance increments and the new f...

30 April 2010
04:17 GMT

HIS Preps Fanless HD 5550 with 1GB Memory

Even though it no longer has the fastest single-GPU card on the market, AMD still has an advantage over NVIDIA, in that it has DirectX 11-capable cards on sale for every market segment. The ATI Radeon HD 5550 is one of the products catering to the needs of entry-level consumers that aren't exactly interested in ...

29 April 2010
08:33 GMT

NVIDIA Might Port PhysX to OpenCL, Will Work on ATI Cards

PhysX middle-ware is used to simulate the laws of physics on a variety of platforms, such as PCs and game consoles (Xbox 360 and PS3), and is meant to add realism and, obviously, improve the overall gaming experience. Most processing of such effects is performed by the x86 CPU that powers said platforms. Some games, ...

29 April 2010
02:35 GMT

AMD Unshackles New, Professional Graphics Cards

After it wasted no time and effort in promoting its ATI FirePro V8800 as the most powerful professional graphics card ever created, Advanced Micro Devices had its graphics business unit make a number of extra cards meant to address the market segments that the high-end model found unreachable. The result was a collec...

26 April 2010
05:43 GMT

Globalfoundries to Make AMD's 28nm GPUs

With all the problems that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has been having, both Advanced Micro Devices and NVIDIA saw for themselves how having just one supplier of graphics chips can backfire. AMD, however, may be able to permanently resolve this issue faster than its rival, because it has a special ace...

21 April 2010
06:30 GMT

PowerColor Brings Out PCS++ HD5770

Over the past few months, PowerColor has released a significant number of graphics adapters, encouraged by the steady flow of new HD 5000 Series cards with DirectX 11 support from ATI, business unit of Advanced Micro Devices. Now that that flow has settled somewhat, the company has begun work on new versions of exist...

7 April 2010
08:29 GMT

ATI Eyefinity 6 Preview

Late last year back in September, Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices announced the introduction of its much-anticipated line of Radeon HD 5800 Series of graphics cards. The new GPUs brought forth a number of solutions, including the support for DirectX 11 and the company's Eyefinity technology. W...

2 April 2010
06:36 GMT

ATI Brings DirectX 11 Complexity to Windows XP

The great thing about DirectX 11 is that it enables a completely new level of realism in games. The bad thing about the technology is that it is only supported by the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series graphics adapters and, in a few hours, NVIDIA' GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480. However, it seems that this limitation is re...

26 March 2010
10:49 GMT

AMD Graphics Cards Finally Support Stereoscopic 3D

Advanced Micro Devices may be in the lead when it comes to DirectX 11 graphics, but it has hardly put up a fight on the Stereoscopic 3D front, which seems to be getting increasingly more attention with each passing month. ATI's Catalyst drivers haven't, until now, supported output of stereo L/R images at 12...

25 March 2010
11:25 GMT

Download ATI Catalyst Software Suite 10.3

Back in February, AMD invited us for a briefing on its upcoming Catalyst drivers update, namely the Catalyst 10.2 and 10.3 Suites. The new drivers were a considerable step up for the Sunnyvale, California-based company, which was planning to provide its consumers with a bunch of new features that would ultimately ena...

25 March 2010
05:07 GMT

ATI Radeon HD 5000 Cards Break iPhone Passwords Faster Than NVIDIA

Graphics cards have evolved significantly in recent years, stepping from a gaming-focused device to a hardware component designed to boost the performance of various applications, thanks to the multi-core architecture of graphics cards. On that note, ElcomSoft announced today that it added support for ATI Radeon grap...

17 March 2010
05:49 GMT

AMD Prepares Trillian Graphics Card

The fact that ATI, business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, is planning on soon launching its DirectX 11-capable cards with the Eyefinity 6 technology is not exactly news, but leaks and details that make it through to the web are always looked upon with interest by observers. So far, what was known was only what coul...

5 March 2010
08:25 GMT

Download ATI Catalyst 10.2 with CrossFire Eyefinity Support

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices announced yesterday the introduction of its new ATI Catalyst 10.2 drivers for the company line of Radeon products. Although much of the information regarding the new drivers has been available since yesterday, the download availability of the new drivers has been del...

18 February 2010
04:21 GMT

AMD Presents the ATI Radeon HD 5570

Continuing as the only graphics solution manufacturer with cards capable of DirectX 11 graphics, Advanced Micro Devices has officially introduced the low-profile ATI Radeon HD 5570. Part of the Sunnyvale, California-based company's plan to offer DirectX 11 cards for all market segments, this accelerator is mean...

9 February 2010
03:51 GMT

Club3D Readies Radeon HD 5850 Overclocked Edition

As always, the steady stream of new graphics cards is still going. After Advanced Micro Devices and its partners launched the various incarnations of the Radeon HD 5450 graphics adapter, hardware makers are now delivering on their other projects. Club3D, for instance, is putting the finishing touches on a new version...

8 February 2010
06:55 GMT

ATI Releases Gray Screen of Death Hotfix

A number of end-users in possession of ATI Radeon graphics cards from the Radeon HD 5700 and HD 5800 series have been suffering from severe frustration as a consequence of exposure to such occurrences as graphics glitches, vertical line corruptions and gray screens of death. Eager to alleviate the problem as quickly ...

6 February 2010
05:15 GMT

Gray Screen of Death Fix Being Worked On by ATI

Among the most frustrating things that end-users can experience when running Windows-powered systems is the infamous Blue Screen of Death. Vista had its own black screen version and, more recently, even Windows 7 gained its own BsoD (a black one). While Microsoft is already offering a free fix for this issue, yet ano...

30 January 2010
04:13 GMT

AMD's ATI FirePro Certified for SolidWorks 2010 on Windows 7

While launching new products seems to have been AMD's favorite activity over the past few months, with DirectX 11-capable cards coming out on a regular basis, it looks like the company is also celebrating another success. Most recently, Advanced Micro Devices revealed that its entire line of ATI FirePro professi...

28 January 2010
10:57 GMT

Download ATI Radeon Catalyst 10.1 Driver Suite

Following the release of its latest Radeon graphics card, the mainstream-oriented HD 5670 model, the Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices announced today the release of a new set of Catalyst graphics drivers. Already leaked on the Internet late last week, release 10.1 is expected to add support for new ...

28 January 2010
06:51 GMT


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