New Windows Features

Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 Windows release includes:

GPU acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe® Flash Player 10.1

* AMD GPU acceleration of Adobe® Flash Player 10.1 delivers smooth high definition video playback and reduces system resource utilization on notebook and desktop platforms featuring AMD graphics including:
o ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 and HD 5000 series Graphics
o ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4000 series (and higher) Graphics
o ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 series integrated graphics (and higher)

Video De-blocking support

* Reduces blocking artifacts seen in low-bit rate video during playback
* Supported on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 series Graphics

Mosquito noise removal

* Reduces mosquito noise seen in highly compressed progressive video, during playback
* Supported on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 series Graphics

Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3

* ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 series Graphics
* ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on ATI Radeon™ HD series Graphics

New Linux Features

Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ driver for Linux 10.6 release includes:

Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3

* ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 series Graphics
* ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on ATI Radeon™ HD series Graphics

Support for new Linux operating systems

* This release of ATI Catalyst™ driver for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
o RHEL 5.5 production support

2D performance enhancements

* ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 delivers a new architecture for 2D acceleration. The new 2D architecture delivers fast windows resizing with Compiz/Visual-Effects and general 2D performance improvements in all AMD supported Linux distributions.

For more information on ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 (for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 release notes.