Focusing simply on the cited performance improvements in the driver release notes however, it's hard to get excited, with Prey only showing some small improvements on high-end boards and leaving not a lot else to show. Overall, the most impressive gains came from the Radeon X1300 in 3DMark06 - If that carries through to some real-world games its good news indeed, but otherwise its limitation to a synthetic benchmark renders it less interesting. Having said that, it's always nice to see progress, and there's no doubt that Catalyst 6.9 is another step in the right direction, between its added CrossFire platform support and additional performance boosts, with further progress in OpenGL titles in particular a sign that ATI are still taking that side of their previously poor driver reputation seriously.