AMD Readies Catalyst Omega 2015 Drivers for November

[btarunr]

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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[megamanxtreme]

Waiting around a year to get these magical drivers. I find it offensive.
At the same time, REJOICE!, these could be the drivers we were hoping for.

 

[Keullo-e]

Almost shed a tear since the name reminds me of soft-modding Radeon 9800SE cards with Omega drivers years ago.

 

[megamanxtreme]

Almost shed a tear since the name reminds me of soft-modding Radeon 9800SE cards with Omega drivers years ago.

These aren't the first Omega drivers released by AMD, and yes, not the unofficial Omega drivers.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Linux distro packaging? Well, they do that already. But they should support more newer kernels

 

[Szb84]

Lets hope they fix the Fiji artifacting...

 

[Keullo-e]

These aren't the first Omega drivers released by AMD, and yes, not the unofficial Omega drivers.

Yeah I know, forgot to mention that the feeling was when the previous Radeon Omega drivers by AMD were released.

 

[jigar2speed]

Lets hope they fix the Fiji artifacting...

Link ?? My friend's FuryX is working excellent btw.

 

[Cybrnook2002]

Looking forward to this. My Fury-X's are waiting...

 

[RejZoR]

I bet these won't support E-450 APU either just like every single Windows 10 driver so far (except the one forced on me from Windows Update which somehow gets installed, but has ZERO HW acceleration). AMD and Microsoft are totally pissing me off lately. AMD with their ignorance to E-450 APU users on Windows 10, making otherwise rather capable GPU part pretty much useless. It can't even fluidly render freaking 480p videos on Youtube without massive frame drops and stalls. Something even Intel Atom N270 was able to do purely on CPU! This is just straight lazy and insulting to me as a customer.

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...

 

[FordGT90Concept]

In the pic, why is the embargo date Dec 5, 2014?

 

[64K]

In the pic, why is the embargo date Dec 5, 2014?

That was for the 2014 release features.

 

[vavyn]

In the pic, why is the embargo date Dec 5, 2014?

"Below is the feature-set of the 2014 release"
Last sentence of the paragraph

 

[WaroDaBeast]

I bet these won't support E-450 APU either just like every single Windows 10 driver so far (except the one forced on me from Windows Update which somehow gets installed, but has ZERO HW acceleration). AMD and Microsoft are totally pissing me off lately. AMD with their ignorance to E-450 APU users on Windows 10, making otherwise rather capable GPU part pretty much useless. It can't even fluidly render freaking 480p videos on Youtube without massive frame drops and stalls. Something even Intel Atom N270 was able to do purely on CPU! This is just straight lazy and insulting to me as a customer.

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...

Do you have HW acceleration under Linux? Just asking in case you tested it by chance.

 

[xkm1948]

Link ?? My friend's FuryX is working excellent btw.

At this time point it is rather annoying to have this problem, especially for people who have no idea what happened. They could end up replacing their monitor!

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/fury-x-display-corruption-under-low-load.216510/

https://community.amd.com/thread/188642

 

[RejZoR]

I had such scenarios when I was underclocking memory or pushing it to the limit with clocks.

 

[INSTG8R]

My Fury did that ONCE. It genuinely freaked me out but it was just that once.

 

[HisDivineOrder]

My Fury did that ONCE. It genuinely freaked me out but it was just that once.

It's the boogieman under your bed. It's bound to come back. Not if. When. Prepare.

 

[Prima.Vera]

At this time point it is rather annoying to have this problem, especially for people who have no idea what happened. They could end up replacing their monitor!

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/fury-x-display-corruption-under-low-load.216510/

https://community.amd.com/thread/188642

Look like the RAMDAC issues I used to have with good ol' S3 Virge cards...Exactly same artifarts.

 

[Octopuss]

Waiting around a year to get these magical drivers. I find it offensive.
At the same time, REJOICE!, these could be the drivers we were hoping for.

There's nothing magical about them. You're free to use any of the numerous drivers released during the year.

 

[GhostRyder]

Cool, looking forward to the new drivers!

 

[Bansaku]

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...

lol OMG have you used the latest Intel IGPU and AMD APUs? I have! In fact I just upgraded my friend's GF's brother's computer to an A10 system last night. In Windows 10 using current drivers, it utterly destroys his HD5770, and makes my integrated HD4000 look like GMA950. Not sure of the Firestrike score, but can tell you it runs GTA V on moderate-high settings pretty darn good!

 

[Casecutter]

Lets hope they fix the Fiji artifacting...

At this time point it is rather annoying to have this problem, especially for people who have no idea what happened. They could end up replacing their monitor!

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/fury-x-display-corruption-under-low-load.216510/

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. IMO

are expected to come with massive performance optimizations across the board

The 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.

 

[Easo]

I have to say that it is pretty sad to hype a driver update.
They are something that should be taken as granted.

 

[RejZoR]

lol OMG have you used the latest Intel IGPU and AMD APUs? I have! In fact I just upgraded my friend's GF's brother's computer to an A10 system last night. In Windows 10 using current drivers, it utterly destroys his HD5770, and makes my integrated HD4000 look like GMA950. Not sure of the Firestrike score, but can tell you it runs GTA V on moderate-high settings pretty darn good!

I have a Atom Z3740 tablet and it's working great. Unlike more powerful E-450 as far as GPU goes...