Wednesday, May 18th 2016

AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.2.1

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AMD today released its third Radeon Software Crimson Edition update for this month. Version 16.5.2.1 provides a massive 35 percent performance increase for Radeon R9 390 series graphics cards (R9 390, R9 390X) on "Doom" (2016), compared to version 16.5.2, released earlier this month. The change-log does not mention whether this is also applicable to the nearly identical Radeon R9 290 series (R9 290, R9 290X, and R9 295X2). Not much else has changed, which explains the version numbering.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.2.1 for Windows 10/8.1/7 64-bit | Windows 10/8.1/7 32-bit

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69 Comments on AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.2.1

#51
medi01
EroticusThis is Myth.
Benchmark results... is Myth.

Oh dear. Even by typical nvidia victim's standards, this is epic... :D

More for you, dude:

In perspective, first, as of May 2015:
GTX 780Ti
Lead over 290X = +9.7% (Nov 7, 2013)
Lead now = +4.2%
Lead over 290X decreased over 50%.

GTX 780
Lead over 290X = -7% (Oct 23, 2013)
Lead now = -16.3%
290X lead increased over 100%.

GTX 760
Lead over 270X = +12% (Oct 7, 2013
Lead now = +4.6%
Lead over 270X decreased over 60%.

But then it didn't stop last year, and goes on in 2016 too:


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#52
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
NokironYeah, Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Different drives aswell.
Super strange, I would bet bad card. That is the same error and issues the bad 290x I have gives.
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#53
Eroticus
medi01Benchmark results... is Myth.

Oh dear. Even by typical nvidia victim's standards, this is epic... :D

More for you, dude:

In perspective, first, as of May 2015:
GTX 780Ti
Lead over 290X = +9.7% (Nov 7, 2013)
Lead now = +4.2%
Lead over 290X decreased over 50%.

GTX 780
Lead over 290X = -7% (Oct 23, 2013)
Lead now = -16.3%
290X lead increased over 100%.

GTX 760
Lead over 270X = +12% (Oct 7, 2013
Lead now = +4.6%
Lead over 270X decreased over 60%.

But then it didn't stop last year, and goes on in 2016 too:











WE Fought ABOUT SAME THING OR WHAT ... ?

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#54
Grings
Whats with these link offs?

and from the look of one of them my 390 will be outperforming the 1080 next year, woo!
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#55
Melvis
EroticusThis is fact .


This is Myth.
Wrong cards, thats not my cards, 280x is what I ran.

AMD Drivers on Linux are worse
AMD Drivers in OpenGL are worse

There facts

If anyone thinks there on par to Nvidia has there head stuck up there ass or are a fanboy
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#56
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
MelvisWrong cards, thats not my cards, 280x is what I ran.

AMD Drivers on Linux are worse
AMD Drivers in OpenGL are worse

There facts

If anyone thinks there on par to Nvidia has there head stuck up there ass or are a fanboy
Hold the damn phone. Have you ever used Nvidia linux drivers? There are more issues than I have ever dealt with with any other piece of HW in existence.
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#57
GoldenX
And yet the official AMD Linux drivers are worse.
If you're on Linux with AMD, see if the new official AMDGPU driver is compatible, or go with the open one.
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#58
Melvis
cdawallHold the damn phone. Have you ever used Nvidia linux drivers? There are more issues than I have ever dealt with with any other piece of HW in existence.
Yes all the time, never had any issues with them.
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#59
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
GoldenXAnd yet the official AMD Linux drivers are worse.
If you're on Linux with AMD, see if the new official AMDGPU driver is compatible, or go with the open one.
I have yet to have an issue with linux and my AMD card? I don't have any issues with the current NV card in that machine either, but both are old and low end.
MelvisYes all the time, never had any issues with them.
Last three linux installs I have done the nvidia quadro cards were nothing, but issues and they were all known issues that NV never bothered to fix.
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#60
GoldenX
For normal use, Catalyst on Linux is fine, but for gaming it has bad OpenGL performance, and some of it's extensions are unstable, making modern games crash.
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#61
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
Ah well that beats nvidia. The Quadra cards have screen glitching in 2d and crashes.
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#62
medi01
EroticusWE Fought ABOUT SAME THING OR WHAT ... ?
Oh. Mia culpa!
GoldenXIf you're on Linux with AMD.
Have some mercy, if you do.
AMD's R&D joint CPU/GPU budget is lower than nVidia's and laughable (10 times or so smaller) than Intel's.
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#63
GoldenX
The open driver is excelent, it recently reached OpenGL 4.3, and is expected to reach 4.5 at the end of the year, it even has OpenCL support, the only thing missing is Vulcan.
The new AMDGPU driver is an hybrid, open with proprietary software, is expected to support all GCN cards in the coming months, for now it only supports GCN 1.2 ones, but offers excellent performance and a full feature set, is what Catalyst should have been years ago.
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#64
ShurikN
GoldenXFor normal use, Catalyst on Linux is fine, but for gaming it has bad OpenGL performance, and some of it's extensions are unstable, making modern games crash.
Can't say I feel sorry for you trying to game on Linux.
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#65
GoldenX
Team Fortress 2 works like a charm, as does Civ V, Left 4 Dead, Dota 2, League of Legends (under Wine), Osu! (Wine too) and the emulators.
You usualy don't get to play the latest games in release, but the games that are there are stable, no Battlefield 4 cr@p. And besides I use it to work, fix bad sectors, copy data from broken Windows installations (oh the irony), etc.
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#66
Agiels
the54thvoidThat chip on your shoulder must be giving you sciatica.

But on a serious note, these forums are getting worse and worse for blind, one sided idiocy from both morons that think AMD make crap drivers or ones that take great revelry when an older card starts to show some performance loss to the competition.

Such utter, infantile behaviour.

Let's makes TPU great again (to steal a Trumpism) and stop being so feverishly determined to attack one side or the other.

AMD driver releases have been great recently (by most accounts). Not without fault though. My own experience with Nvidia drivers was flawless until 364 branch. And that didn't affect everyone.

Drivers are always going to work for most and bring grief to some, red or green.

It's only the ignorant fanaticism that makes it seem like a huge problem.
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#67
Agiels
i cant be more agreed with you, only fanatics can be so blinded by colors ... maybe they have to set on that blind ppol profile...
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#68
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
I just rolled back to 16.4.2s due to a odd Boot Glitch that caused Windows 7 to display the Please Wait text then Welcome then boot, after I rolled back My Bootup is faster (System Restore), Must of been a glitch in the 16.5.2s, Oh Well, Might as well wait for WHQL drivers...
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#69
Agiels
they should make some WQHL drivers soon i hope
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