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AMD RADEON™

GRAPHICS AMD CATALYST UPDATE

AMD Graphics Product Group AMD Confidential | AMD Internal Only

AUGUST 2013

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(Translated, with permission)

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“With the Catalyst 13.8 Beta new important

Improvements are announced, which will for sure

make the owners of AMD multi-GPU systems happy.” (Translated, with permission)

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“Users of AMD CrossFire systems in the HD 7000

family should install this new driver and see if they

can see or feel the difference. I am confident that users will!” >> READ MORE HERE

“The new Catalyst 13.8 Beta-driver is perhaps

the largest improvement till now. This is mainly

due to a technique that AMD calls Frame Pacing.” (Translated, with permission)

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“We are going to give credit where credit is due

as AMD deserves that. In a relatively short time period the

driver team has been able to tackle micro-stuttering significantly.” >> READ MORE HERE

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celebration time for crossfire users!!!! love u AMD!!

Great drivers for my rig! Keep up the good work AMD!

everything runs smooth as hell…this is fantastic, love these drivers,

so glad I changed from GTX680 SLI to 2x HD7970 few months ago.

Impressive improvements across the board with no

discernible performance hit. Excellent job AMD.

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AMD Catalyst™ 13.8 Beta Driver Extends AMD Radeon™ HD 7990’s Leadership

“It’s undeniable how the optimisation work done on the Catalyst

drivers brings the Radeon HD 7990 to its correct place in the market.” (Translated, with permission)

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“The Radeon HD 7990's frame production and delivery results

look much more like what you'd get from a single fast GPU –

and that's exactly the behavior you'd want.” >> READ MORE HERE

“…the addition of frame pacing makes the

Radeon HD 7990 the fastest graphics card.” >> READ MORE HERE

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Improved

Consistency

Smoother

Animation

Improved

Gameplay

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AMD RADEON HD 7990 THE WORLD’S FASTEST GRAPHICS CARD

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AMD CATALYST™

13.8 BETA

IMPROVEMENT AMD RADEON

™ HD 7990

RELENTLESS IMPROVEMENT and LEADERSHIP

LEADERSHIP

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FRAME PACING ensures that frames

rendered across multiple GPUs in a AMD

CrossFire™ configuration will be displayed

at an even and regular pace

Enabled through the AMD Catalyst™

Control Center (globally or on a

per application basis)

Available publicly August 1 as a

BETA download

AMD CATALYST™ 13.8 BETA WITH FRAME PACING