AMD Releases Industry's First WHQL-certified Drivers for Windows 7

Wednesday, May 6th 2009

AMD is ready with the industry's first WHQL-certified set of drivers for Microsoft Windows 7. The Catalyst WHQL Windows 7 driver comes as yet another first for AMD, and a first for Microsoft's Windows 7 certification program. Dated 5/5/2009, the drivers carry the version 8.612, feature full support for Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 1.1 and works with ATI Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, and HD 4000 series. The drivers also provide support for ATI Stream GPGPU technology.

DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 8.612 WHQL for Windows 7 64-bit, and Windows 7 32-bit.

posted by btarunr - 8:07 AM | Related News |

User comments

by wiak (8:14 AM) - Reply

:respect: btarunr

by soryuuha (8:42 AM) - Reply

Is this Catalyst 9.5?

by Mussels (8:46 AM) - Reply

WOOHOO! I just went to 7 on my main system last night :) cat 8.4 shows at 8.600 in device manager, so this is just a few builds up. edit: on the x64 page make sure you click the bottom link, the top one is a month old.

by csendesmark (9:26 AM) - Reply

Why 8.6? Edit: Sorry, never mind =)

by soryuuha (9:27 AM) - Reply

by: csendesmark
Why 8.6?

That's driver version

by Mussels (9:28 AM) - Reply

by: csendesmark
Why 8.6?

read the post directly above yours.

by InnocentCriminal (9:40 AM) - Reply

Anyone compared the version number to the 9.5 beta?

by kenkickr (11:19 AM) - Reply

Right now I can say it installs much easier than the 9.4's and 9.5 beta due to not havinig to manually install them. Massive driver footprint for being an ATI driver(this is nothing compared to Nvidia's:laugh:), almost 100Mb. Nice that it comes with Hydravision.

by oli_ramsay (11:23 AM) - Reply

is it safe to delete the 2 highlighted folders after installation?

by kenkickr (11:25 AM) - Reply

The ATI one should be OK to remove but not the AMD folder. The AMD folder contains the 8.6 version driver. Now if you have any ATI tuner cards installed then I wouldn't remove the ATI folder.

by crtecha (11:28 AM) - Reply

This is awesome. I installed just the 9.5 beta drivers last night Ill have to throw these on when I get home.

by Hayder_Master (11:47 AM) - Reply

download it now

by PCpraiser100 (12:04 PM) - Reply

Nice, AMD comes first from the pack.

by REVHEAD (12:21 PM) - Reply

by: PCpraiser100
Nice, AMD comes first from the pack.

As allways.

by ShadowFold (12:40 PM) - Reply

I downloaded 7 RC last night.. I wasn't gonna install it, but now I want to :p

by theubersmurf (1:51 PM) - Reply

Does this driver have support for Radeon 4770?

by Scrizz (3:19 PM) - Reply

by: btarunr
works with ATI Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, and HD 4000 series.

:toast:

by scope54 (3:47 PM) - Reply

so i just noticed, hydravision is back....haven't seen that bundled with the driver in a long time

by newtekie1 (4:15 PM) - Reply

by: kenkickr
Right now I can say it installs much easier than the 9.4's and 9.5 beta due to not havinig to manually install them. Massive driver footprint for being an ATI driver(this is nothing compared to Nvidia's:laugh:), almost 100Mb. Nice that it comes with Hydravision.

This is 98MB, nVidia's is 79MB... how is this "nothing" compared to nVidia's?

by InnocentCriminal (4:58 PM) - Reply

He was probably referring to older drivers.

by Nitrogliserin (5:07 PM) - Reply

oh please I hope Control Center is working with this one. I got a 1080p LCD-Tv. without CCC I cant enlarge my screen.

by H82LUZ73 (9:01 PM) - Reply

Nitro use the scaling options,Also Win7 defaults to what ever your tv-monitor can go to,My 37 inch is set for 1920x1280 and i still have to use scaling. I tried these this morning and install was like 9.4 ask me if I want to install driver signature error again.Then I tried a game and DX errors all the time went back to 9.4.

by Polarman (9:22 PM) - Reply

Trying to figure out why 7's drivers are close to 100MB compared to Vista 47MB 32bit flavor.

by ShadowFold (9:52 PM) - Reply

Downloading these now. Hope they're good! The RC of 7 is definitely more polished than the old beta's. I actually like it :toast:

by oli_ramsay (11:04 PM) - Reply

These drivers make me lag like crazy in TF2, back to 9.4 for me :(

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