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."
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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.
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Sure, you can game on a TV, you can game on a in-dash car screen, or anything with a video input if you wanted to. You are just making sacrifices to do so that a typical Gaming monitor would not. That's all.... And although technically it's possible it doesn't happen, but yes, the sun will rise again tomorrow, so please let's not do the semantics flame war that always happens in a GPU thread.
I hope this helps AMD to gain a bit of market share back again. At least it looks nice... ;)
Both has its own advantages and disadvantages. Make new thread if you want, I'll be happy to share my opinion.
Soo, just tried it. Yeah, it fast. Old CCC really is ancient.
Here are your drivers (E-450 = HD 6320) - Crimson Beta
- AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 (including A/D/G/M variants) Series Graphics
support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy3&os=Windows+10+-+64Keep in mind this GPU is not GCN, and came out almost 5 years ago. Not surprising it's not in the mainstream releases.
techreport.com/news/29362/amd-ends-driver-support-for-non-gcn-radeon-cards
So I tried 3440x1440 and get display not supported error (probably true since it's uncommon).
But with CRU I could run 3440x1440 centered.
Not having to switch between regular and eyefinity is an incredibly nice little utility. I wonder if it works well.
He's just pissed, so am i as ours we only got 2 year ago and they dropped it. What makes people mad is that the laptop at the time ran like a champ and now it runs like complete crap so yeah he's pissed get over it.may be a bug but ED don't show in mine, well not by default noticed a bunch that do by default no matter really.
I unfortunately am not presently using AMD hardware, but I'm curious if anyone has noticed if the crashing issue above is happening to more than one user? Stability is important, after-all.
Jeez AMD, if you're going to remove a known issue, maybe you should actually fix it first... Elite: Dangerous with these drivers in Super Cruise mode is literally unplayable with these drivers. Pretty disappointed in fact. I'll continue my testing with some other games but, Elite: Dangerous seems to behave so badly that it's out of the question.
Other than that it works well, no issues on my end.