Wednesday, October 28th 2015
AMD Readies Catalyst Omega 2015 Drivers for November
AMD is planning a major driver update for its Radeon GPUs this November, under its Catalyst Omega moniker. These WHQL-signed drivers, which made their debut in 2014, are expected to come with massive performance optimizations across the board, and in a large selection of new and existing games. It will also present AMD with the opportunity to introduce new software features to their drivers, bringing about value-addition to existing machines running Radeon GPUs.
The 2014 release of Catalyst Omega, besides offering significant performance updates, also introduced major new features such as 4K Virtual Super Resolution (VSR), TressFX 3.0, 5K display support, and various image quality improvements. The new drivers are expected to have an equally exhaustive list of new features, performance- and stability updates, that level the features and performance playing field between AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce GPUs. Below is the feature-set of the 2014 release.
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The 2014 release of Catalyst Omega, besides offering significant performance updates, also introduced major new features such as 4K Virtual Super Resolution (VSR), TressFX 3.0, 5K display support, and various image quality improvements. The new drivers are expected to have an equally exhaustive list of new features, performance- and stability updates, that level the features and performance playing field between AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce GPUs. Below is the feature-set of the 2014 release.
33 Comments on AMD Readies Catalyst Omega 2015 Drivers for November
At the same time, REJOICE!, these could be the drivers we were hoping for.
Only thing this tells to me is that next time I'll prefer Intel and NVIDIA over anything from AMD. I guess they don't want my money anymore...
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www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/fury-x-display-corruption-under-low-load.216510/
community.amd.com/thread/188642
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Ah, the moment I saw that picture... that isn't something a driver normally going to fix. And I'm not downplaying the issue. If you pull the FuryX and install most any other recent AMD graphics and it doesn't rear its ugly head, it's the card. If there's not another BIOS flash that can be done (and I don't know of any BIOS to counter that), all you can do is call and work through the issue with an RMA. Never fun especially with constricted supplies.
Instigating/dredging such an issue up here purports only to inflame the thread. IMOThe 2014 Catalyst Omega where respectable, but let’s not set expectations to lofty. That was the best part of the Omega not a lot pre-fanfare... spin that over sold it.
If remember correctly.
They are something that should be taken as granted.
If this is a hardware issue it affects pretty much all of these GPU's.
A Fury X owner on another forum said he does not have the issue but he's using the card on a Linux distro with a driver which disables powerplay - I think this would explain why he didn't have it. Not to mention AMD has a history with idle state powertune/powerplay issues just remember the blackscreen, flickering, artifacting, etc. issues with too low 2D memory clock on the first GCN cards and the R 200 series.