Tuesday, November 24th 2015
AMD Announces Radeon Crimson Software
AMD today released its completely reimagined graphics software suite, Radeon Software Crimson Edition, giving users an exceptional new user experience, 12 new or enhanced features, up to 20 percent more graphics performance, adjustability that can nearly double generational energy efficiency2, and rock-solid stability across the full spectrum of AMD graphics products. The release is the first from the Radeon Technologies Group, which recently announced a renewed focus on software placing it on par with hardware initiatives.
"As the primary way that people interact with our products, our software deserves to be viewed as a top priority, and going forward that's exactly what we're doing, delivering easy-to-use software that is packed with real user benefits, starting with Radeon Software Crimson Edition," said Raja Koduri, senior vice president and chief architect, Radeon Technologies Group. "Radeon Technologies Group is laser-focused on the vertical integration of all things graphics, propelling the industry forward by driving performance per watt, creating innovative technologies and ensuring that the software supporting our GPUs is world class."
DOWNLOAD: AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition for Windows 10 64-bit | Windows 10 32-bit | Windows 8.1 64-bit | Windows 8.1 32-bit | Windows 7 64-bit | Windows 7 32-bit
Radeon Software Crimson Edition includes:
"As the primary way that people interact with our products, our software deserves to be viewed as a top priority, and going forward that's exactly what we're doing, delivering easy-to-use software that is packed with real user benefits, starting with Radeon Software Crimson Edition," said Raja Koduri, senior vice president and chief architect, Radeon Technologies Group. "Radeon Technologies Group is laser-focused on the vertical integration of all things graphics, propelling the industry forward by driving performance per watt, creating innovative technologies and ensuring that the software supporting our GPUs is world class."
Radeon Software Crimson Edition includes:
- Radeon Settings - A new, streamlined user interface: Engineered to get the best performance on AMD graphics hardware, the user-friendly and feature-rich Radeon Settings is lightning fast, starting up 10 times faster3 and initializing displays 3 times faster4 than the AMD Catalyst driver. It also offers a more intuitive navigation, a new game manager, new overdrive, and new video, display and AMD Eyefinity technology sections letting users easily apply game settings, adjust performance settings, and apply various features and configurations to their computing experience.
- 12 new or enhanced features: A wide range of new and augmented capabilities help ensure that users enjoy the best experience possible across gaming, video and productivity applications.
- Supercharged performance and energy efficiency: Radeon Software Crimson Edition enables up to 33 percent faster game load times5, up to 20 percent more game performance, and up to 1.8 times more energy efficiency capability2 than its predecessor which can increasing system performance-per-watt by as much as 23 percent.6
- First public support of AMD LiquidVR technology: GCN's Asynchronous Compute Engine helps to dramatically improve frames per second (FPS), responsiveness and latency in Virtual Reality applications for an exceptionally smooth gaming experience on all GCN-based hardware.
- Seamless stability: With twice the number of test cases across 15 percent more system configurations than AMD Catalyst Omega, and the implementation of a huge number of community-driven requests, Radeon Software Crimson Edition delivers exceptional stability across a range of experiences.
106 Comments on AMD Announces Radeon Crimson Software
LOL! You guys did, just saw it.
Bta, no DL link?
support.amd.com/en-us/download
But as always, need some reviews to establish the real world outcomes.
Pah.. Just read TPU review.... Not the % increase I was expecting from the press blurb.
-AMD Radeon™ R9 M300, R7 M300, and R5 M300 Series
-AMD Radeon™ R9 M200, R7 M200, R5 M200, HD 8500M - HD 8900M, and HD 7700M - HD 7900M Series
-AMD Radeon™ HD 6000M and HD 5000M Series
Where is HD 7000M Series? These are all the drivers available for notebook GPUs and that manual selection where HD 7xxxM is available does not work.
As far as I know there's no working DP to HDMI 2.0 converter except Club3D CAC-1070 which not released yet.
Does it mean:
- any DP to HDMI converter (say 1.4) will works?
- AMD pushing adapter manufacturers to make that converter by providing some kind of 'standard'?
- or else?
Then again, AMD (ATi) also pioneered the audio passthrough on DVI connectors with a DVI to HDMI converters that weren't exactly standard either back in the days.
Oh well, it's better than nothing then. With AMD backing, maybe one or two manufacturers will quickly bring working product.
Really tempted to go back to nVidia here.
hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1871650&page=2- Likely not, you can't change a standard. Will need a new Adapter.
- I doubt they are "pushing" anyone to do anything. But the market cried so much, I think they are engineering something to satisfy the masses. Just simple business, there (for whatever reason), seems to be a small niche of people that want 60hz 4k on their TV's.
My reason, TV is cheap(er) and often on sale :p
I also find 4K big screen is soo great with older pixel-based RTS games like AoE II.
However, that's just me. If gaming on a TV is your thing, then AMD will have an adapter for you :-)