It would have been nice to include also the 8.12 drivers and also some stability test, because since 9.1 drivers, it seems that the games are crushing regulary after 15-20 mins of playing, specialy on 4870X2 cards on Vista x32..

Not everyone uses ATI's great vga cards to play games.............

PQ and decoding HD content for HTPC users is just as important when comparing driver versions

It seems that lately you are keen on trying new driver iterations from ATI and nVidia. I was wondering if you could also do a benchmark on the Linux world. I guess that the differences would be bigger. It might be tougher to get 3d games to benchmark there, but there are a few (like Quake 3). All of them are openGL but it will help a lot to know how different hardware performs on some peoples favorite OS.

there isn't much in the max frame rate

but alot of the Minimum frame rates went up
which in most cases is more important

if you get 100 fps max
but a min of 20, then your gameplay stutters

if you get a max of 100 and a min of 30..then you don't notice it