Support for Radeon HD 4890. Since the 3D graphics market is a tough competition between ATi and Nvidia there is with the development of the graphics card and the unique programming of the driver is no longer done. Meanwhile, manufacturers are requested for a prolonged period at regular intervals, new driver for a graphics chip to develop and maintain. Sometimes it is even necessary, a driver for a single game to adapt to play the game, at best, a little faster, but sometimes runs in the first place – reason enough, the new driver to a regular test. The latest drivers from the home is the ATi Catalyst 9.4. In our test are for comparative purposes also the Catalyst drivers represented 9.3 to 8:10.
This time it was not too long wait: The Catalyst 9.3 ATi was on 18 March to download, and about three weeks later, already sees the Catalyst 9.4, the light of the world. The driver itself is on the 16th Dated March, and has the rest of the time spent at Microsoft expected to have a WHQL certification to obtain.
The 64-bit version of Catalyst 9.4 brings about 64 MB on the scales and includes the driver and the Catalyst Control Center. The exact version number of the software is “8.60-090316a1. A bigger surprise is in the cards do not support. Only newly added is the Radeon HD 4890, the last week have come out with. Starting with the Radeon HD 2000 series are all ATi graphics cards supported – the older models are as announced and will be out from now on only once every three months served.
True, there are changes in Catalyst 9.4 is not what the major steps of the Catalyst 9.3 also not surprised. Primary seems to be a bug-fix-drivers to act, with the support for the Radeon HD 4890 is located at the top. Most notable is also the compatibility with Windows 7, since each ATi Catalyst 9.3 driver offers. So it is a “Unified” driver, which is for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 there.
The only major change in the Catalyst 9.4, which is in official release notes documented, is a modification of the automatic overdrive function. The overdrive function should now work more accurately and has been specially designed for the Radeon HD 4000-series optimized. In our practical test required Auto-Tune “but full 41 minutes, until the maximum stroke was found. The frequencies set in a load worked flawlessly.
Besides, with the Catalyst 9.4, some bugs fixed. Furthermore there is the “Power Play” errors in a multi-GPU configurations, such as the Radeon HD 4870 X2. In a separate news, we have precisely the issue. The Catalyst 9.4 is as usual from our download archive download.
