Catalyst 15.5 Beta Driver

natr0n · May 29, 2015

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx

Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta Windows Driver

Crossfire Profile Update for:

- *The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt

Performance Improvements for the following :

- The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt : Up to 10% performance increase on single GPU Radeon R9 and R7 Series graphics products
- Project Cars - Up to 17% performance increase on single GPU Radeon R9 and R7 Series graphics products

Frag_Maniac · May 29, 2015

Meh, don't play TW, and if P CARS only improves on the newer cards, won't help me a bit.

Or, would an R9 280x improvement benefit the 7970 as well?

A couple 7970 users are reporting only 2-3 FPS gain in TW3, while there's no feedback yet on the P CARS forum.

SonicZap · May 29, 2015

I'd expect the HD 7xxx series to gain performance as well, since the R7 and R9 GPUs are just re-brands. I'll have to try these with my HD 7850 (aka R7 265) and The Witcher 3, although I'm expecting the difference to be barely visible.

MilkyWay · May 29, 2015

AMD has been rather slow with driver updates, not that any drivers will help with my 6850 (which is long in the tooth).

manofthem · May 29, 2015

Sure, I'll give this driver a go tomorrow. I don't have any new games like TW3 to test, but I still enjoy updating the driver in my main rig when I can.

Caring1 · May 29, 2015

SonicZap said:
I'd expect the HD 7xxx series to gain performance as well, since the R7 and R9 GPUs are just re-brands. I'll have to try these with my HD 7850 (aka R7 265) and The Witcher 3, although I'm expecting the difference to be barely visible.

W10 and Dx 12 should show some gains for those cards.

Frag_Maniac · May 30, 2015

Yes, the 280x is based on the 7970, but the 7970 utilizes only half as many Asynchronous Compute Engines (ACE). This I learned when researching which GPUs will support Dx12. The number of ACE units may affect how effective current driver updates are as well for all I know, since 15.5 results seem to vary a bit between 280x owners and those with 7970s.

It only makes sense that AMD would be trying to utilize ACE units more now, since Dx12 implementation is drawing near, and Mantle/Vulkan already exists.

OneMoar · Jun 3, 2015

Frag Maniac said:
Yes, the 280x is based on the 7970, but the 7970 utilizes only half as many Asynchronous Compute Engines (ACE). This I learned when researching which GPUs will support Dx12. The number of ACE units may affect how effective current driver updates are as well for all I know, since 15.5 results seem to vary a bit between 280x owners and those with 7970s.

It only makes sense that AMD would be trying to utilize ACE units more now, since Dx12 implementation is drawing near, and Mantle/Vulkan already exists.

a 280x is a 7970 Ghz edtion they are physically identical you are thinking of the 285

Pill Monster · Jun 3, 2015

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Catalyst 15.5 Beta Driver

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