AMD officially announced the Windows 8 system catalyst driver

The development of Windows 8 system is steadily progressing, and the supporting drivers for various devices are also appearing constantly. AMD announced the catalyst driver for Windows 8 for the first time today, which seems to be The first officially released graphics card driver under Windows 8.

The driver was compiled on September 30, 2011, version 8.88.5.0004, which is older than the official version of the catalyst, and implies that it has been tested for a long time. The driver package only has a display driver, an OpenCL driver, and no other redundant components. The volume is only 87.2MB.

This preview driver supports 32/64-bit Windows 8 operating system. The hardware supports Radeon HD 5000/6000 series, including desktop and notebook discrete graphics, integrated graphics, 6000A series all-in-one graphics card, and Fusion APU processing. , as well as some FirePro workstation graphics cards, FireStream accelerated computing cards, Radeon E embedded graphics.

Since there is no release note, it is not clear what more about this driver. Users who are experiencing Windows 8 A card may wish to try it.

Catalyst Windows 8 Preview Download:

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/amd_display_driver_win8_preview.exe