A week ago, EA released the changelog of the upcoming second patch for Need for Speed Shift that will address various issues on all platforms.
Most interesting for PC users will be the performance-related changes as the patch aims to drastically improve the graphic performance, especially for ATI users. How significant the changes are shows the following in-depth article from HardOCP.
They got to test the second patch, providing us with a variety of benchmarks and image quality comparisons. The patch is expected to be released at the end of this month, click here to check out the very detailed benchmarking article.