Examining AMD’s Driver Progress Since Launch

Ryan Martin / 10 years ago

Test Systems and Procedures

Before we delve into any testing we would like to take this opportunity to review our test system and thank those sponsors who kindly provided us with test equipment to make our work possible. We offer our thanks to:

Intel for supplying us with a Core i7 3960X processor, which we reviewed here.

Kingston for supplying us with a Hyper X 3K 240GB solid state drive, which we reviewed here.

XFX for supplying us with an R9 290X Double Dissipation 4GB graphics card, which we reviewed here, and a HD 7970 Double Dissipation 3GB graphics card.

Corsair for supplying us with a Hydro Series H100i liquid CPU cooler, which we reviewed here, and a Vengeance Pro 1866MHz 16GB memory kit, which we reviewed here.

Be Quiet for supplying us with a Straight Power E9 680W power supply unit, which we reviewed here.

ASUS for supplying us with a Rampage IV Extreme X79 motherboard, which we reviewed here.

Lian Li for supplying us with a PC-T60A test bench.

Noctua for supplying us with NT-H1 thermal compound.

Test System:

Motherboard – Asus Rampage IV Extreme X79 LGA 2011 Motherboard
Processor – Intel Core i7 3960X with Turbo disabled
Graphics Card: XFX R9 290X Double Dissipation 4GB (with AMD Catalyst 14.7 RC1 and 13.11 Beta 6 drivers) and XFX HD 7970 Double Dissipation 3GB (with AMD Catalyst 14.7 RC1 and 11.12 RC11 drivers)
RAM – 16GB (2 X 8GB) Corsair Vengeance Pro 9-10-9-27 1866MHz
CPU Cooler – Corsair H100i with Quiet Fan Profile
Power Supply – Be Quiet Straight Power E9 680W
Main Storage Drive – Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD
Chassis – Lian Li T60 Test Bench
Displays – LG IPS234 23 inch 1080p display
Operating System – Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit