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ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite Preview

Sample roughly Feb 10

NDA lift roughly Feb 17


Introducing the 1-2 punch of Catalyst 10.2 and 10.3

Catalyst 10.2 target posting is Feb 17th

Catalyst 10.3 target posting is March 2010

We will sample press Catalyst 10.3 roughly Feb 10th so

that you can test all the features in the presentation

NDA lifts Feb 17th (or when we post Catalyst 10.2)



Highlights

• ATI CrossFireX™ technology application profiles

• ATI CrossFireX and Eyefinity Support

• ATI PowerPlay™ technology support for the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series using ATI CrossFireX™ technology

• ATI Catalyst™ mobility support

• ATI Eyefinity technology user interface enhancements

• New Display & Video enhancements

• Stereoscopic 3D support• DisplayPort™ Audio


Application Profiles – ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite 10.2

• ATI CrossFireX™ technology application profiles are being removed from the 3D driver to a separate .XML file to enable quick updates from amd.com

Catalyst

Driver

CF profiles

12 times a year update

Updates as often as required

• The latest application profile list will be posted on amd.com as a separate .exe file that users can install to get the latest application profiles


ATI CrossFireX™ technology configurations featuring ATI PowerPlay™ technology – ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 Software Suite

3D Mode Support Desktop Mode Support

Sets the secondary GPU(s) in a very low

power state when not in use

Both GPUs are

in full use

when playing

3D games

X

• Significant power saving benefits for users with ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon™ 5800 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 graphics set-up in ATI CrossFireX™ technology configurations (up to 4 GPUs)

• Automatically enabled in the ATI Catalyst™ driver for Windows®

7 and Windows® Vista

• Sets secondary GPU(s) engine and memory clocks to very low levels and reduces voltage when the GPU(s) are not in use


Save up to 12 Watts of power!

ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 series graphics running in a ATI CrossFireX™ configuration featuring ATI PowerPlay™ Technology…

Pow

er

Usage (

Watt

s)

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

ATI PowerPlay enabled on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 featuring ATI CrossFireX™

Technology

ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 featuring ATI CrossFireX™

Technology

ATI CrossFireX™ technology configurations featuring ATI PowerPlay™ technology – ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 Software Suite


ATI CrossFireX™ technology with ATI Eyefinity* technology - ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 Software Suite

• ATI CrossFireX™ technology works in conjunction with ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology

• Enables users to take advantage of additional GPUs for increased gaming performance when driving high-resolution ATI Eyefinity display groups

*ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for panning across three

displays and to enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector


ATI CrossFireX® technology re-architecture preview

• Remove Multi-GPU code from the 3D driver component, into a new Multi-GPU driver component

• Common ATI CrossFireX™ technology algorithms across Direct3D and OpenGL APIs and all Graphics products

• Supported combinations of IGP and Discrete parts TBD

Preview feature for the future – no end user scenario

currently


Display Features – ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 Software Suite

• DisplayPort™ audio for DisplayPort panels

And the final list of 10.2 features…

Now for 10.3 features…


Display Features – ATI Catalyst™ 10.3 Software Suite

• 3D Stereoscopic support

• AMD has updated it’s Direct3D driver to enable 3rd party middleware vendors such as iZ3D to output stereo L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per eye)


Display Bezel Compensation• Easy-to-use wizard shows

users how to adjust their display layout to remove the pixels occupied by their display bezels

Per-Display Color Adjust• Individual color, brightness

and contrast controls

ATI Catalyst™ Control Center – ATI Catalyst™ 10.3 Software Suite

ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements


Multiple ATI Eyefinity Groups• Create more than one ATI

Eyefinity group from multiple displays

Improved Display Configuration Switching

• Improved support for ATI Eyefinity groups in ATI Catalyst Control Center™ profiles

• Easily toggle between cloned and extended modes

ATI Catalyst™ Control Center – ATI Catalyst™ 10.3 Software Suite

ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements


ATI Mobility Radeon™ Premium GraphicsATI Catalyst™ 10.3 Software Suite

• Monthly ATI Catalyst™ releases for the production version of Windows® 7 and Windows ® Vista for notebooks featuring:

• ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2000 Series• ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3000 Series• ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4000 Series• Future ATI Mobility products

• Supported by most major OEM/ODM notebook manufacturers


Conclusion


• Significant ATI CrossFireX™ technology improvements

• ATI Catalyst™ mobility support

• ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements

• New display & video features

THANK YOU!


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