In the time before the Radeon, ATI’s drivers were notoriously bad. ATI knew that, in order to compete in the high end consumer space with NVIDIA, their driver would need to be easy to use, intuitive, and stable. Thus the CATALYST program was born.
For the past few years, we have seen ATI’s drivers grow in stability and performance. Features have been added that have continued to push the envelope of driver development. Features such as Overdrive (automatic overclocking) and VPU Recovery (soft reset to avoid system crashes) have been added and last year ATI pushed forward with their Catalyst Control Center user interface redesign.
Check out the full look at AnandTech, or Hard|OCP as we posted.