AMD has finally released its new Omega driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, this new driver comes with 20 new features, support for 5K monitors, performance and frame pacing improvements, as well as a significant number of bug fixes.
Those interested can download this new driver from AMD’s official website.
And here are the release notes for this new driver:
Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ Omega Windows Driver
Introducing the AMD Catalyst™ Omega driver for Windows, a “Special Edition” driver delivered to enhance the AMD GPU and APU experience. The AMD Catalyst™ Omega driver contains over 20 new features, performance improvements, and significant number of bug fixes and improvements. All improvements will be carried forward in subsequent driver releases.
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR):
Render games at higher resolution and display them at lower resolution. Up to 4k quality gaming on 1080p HD displays
- Smoother textures and edges
- Game and Engine agnostic solution
- Simulates Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing (SSAA) for games that don’t support it
- Enabled through AMD Catalyst™ Control Center
- Select higher resolution in-game settings
- Available on AMD Radeon™ R9 290 series, and AMD Radeon R9 285 GPUs
5K Monitor Support:
Unparalleled display performance for professionals and gamers who require the highest resolution available and silky-smooth, fatigue-free graphics
- 5120×2880 at 60Hz
- 14.7 million pixels, 218 pixels-per-inch
- Dual DisplayPort 1.2 input
- Available on AMD FirePro™ and AMD Radeon™ R series GPUs
Alienware Graphics Amplifier:
Support for AMD Radeon™ Graphics in Alienware Graphics Amplifier
- Expand the capability of the Alienware 13 notebook with a high-performance AMD Radeon graphics card
- Drive resolutions up to 4K
- Performance that far exceeds the built-in graphics.
- Supported on select AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 series GPUs and newer
Perfect Picture Enhancements:
- AMD Fluid Motion Video – Smooth Blu-ray playback with lower power APUs
- High quality frame rate conversion
- Interpolates frames using GPU compute
- Removes video judder
- Available on AMD 7000 Series APUs and AMD Radeon™ R7 & R9 series GPUs
- Contour Removal – Improved algorithm for compressed videos
- Removes compression artifacts without disturbing video details
- Available on AMD Athlon™ APUs, AMD 7000 series APUs, and AMD Radeon™ R series GPUs
Perfect Picture Additions:
- 1080p Detail Enhancement now for APUs
- Provides look-and-feel of 1080p video to lower-resolution content
- Improves frequency response and controllability of overshoot and noise immunity
- Available on AMD 7000 series APUs and AMD Radeon™ R series GPUs
- Ultra HD-Like Experience – Makes 1080P videos 4K-like
- Combination of:
- Fluid Motion Video
- Detail Enhancement
- Adaptive upscaling
- Available on AMD Radeon™ R7 260 and higher
Frame Pacing Enhancements for AMD Dual Graphics:
- Includes enhancements for
- Metro 2033
- World of Warcraft
- 3DMark 11
- Sniper Elite V2
- Tomb Raider
- Hitman: Absolution
- GRID 2
- Alien: Isolation
- Batman: Arkham Origins
- BioShock: Infinite
- Unigine Valley Benchmark
- Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare
- Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Metro 2033 Redux
- Sniper Elite 3
- Assassin’s Creed Unity
- Metro: Last Light
AMD CrossFire™ Frame Pacing improvements:
- Designed to reduce stuttering from graphics memory intensive applications: Tomb Raider, Hitman Absolution, Watch Dogs, Far Cry 3
OpenCL™ 2.0 Support:
New features give GPUs more freedom to do the work they are designed to do
- Shared virtual memory
- Enables host and device kernels to directly share complex pointer based data structures, eliminating explicit transfers between the host and devices while increasing programming flexibility.
- Device-side Enqueue
- Updated for improved programmability and increased application efficiency
- Generic address space
- Enables functions to be written without named address spaces which increases flexibility and saves time by eliminating the need for multiple functions to be written.
Performance Optimizations versus AMD Catalyst™ 14.9 WHQL
- Sid Meier’s Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ performance optimizations
- Mantle API activated for ultimate performance in Sid Meier’s Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
- Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare performance optimizations
- Up to 30% performance increases with FXAA and lower game resolutions
- Optimized AMD CrossFire™ Profile update for improved performance
- Assassin’s Creed® Unity performance optimizations
- Single GPU performance improvements
- Optimized AMD CrossFire™ Profile update for improved performance
- Dragon Age: Inquisition performance optimizations
- Up to 15% performance increase in single GPU scenarios with Anti-Aliasing enabled.
- Optimized AMD CrossFire™ Profile update for improved performance
- Far Cry 4 performance optimizations
- Up to 50% performance increase in single GPU scenarios with Anti-Aliasing enabled.
Year over Year Performance Optimizations versus AMD Catalyst™ 13.12 WHQL*
- Up to 19% more performance since launch in some games on AMD Radeon R Series GPUs
- Up to 29% more performance since launch in some games on various AMD APUs
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Massive performance boost for assassin’s creed unity, i jumped from around 30fps avg to 40 avg … amazing
After I switched over to Nvidia, now AMD decides to release this amazing driver.
Looking at the reviews on other websites, it’s nothing amazing game performance wise. Just some added features that are nothing to scream and yell about.
I switched to Nvidia this year too. I’ll be switching back to AMD if the 300x rumors hold true
I didn’t test other games yet but like most people are saying, the gains in Unity is off the charts.
I got like 10 more frames in farcry 4
Ubisoft games people say but most benchmarks only show 1.5 maybe 2 fps difference…
ACU 20fps boost with these drivers and other people are getting the same consistent boost across different cards.
John Mellinger thinks we’re lying about ACU unity because the benchmarks don’t show it.
LoL he’s just in denial then because people are reporting at LEAST a 10fps increase in Unity.
See my images at the top, no denying it.
640 GB/s memory bandwidth for the R9 390X is insane eh.
640 GB/s memory bandwidth for the R9 390X is insane eh.
well … if you read this… it’s not really that amazing… it’s more like the Nvidia wonder driver stunt. http://pclab.pl/art60895-4.html
http://www.techspot.com/news/59074-amd-unveils-major-gpu-driver-update-catalyst-omega.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-catalyst-omega-radeon-driver,28155.html
buncha AMD slides nothing new…
read the writers’ review
“AMD’s Gaming Evolved program, there was no performance improvement at all: Watch Dogs, Battlefield 4, Sleeping Dogs, Tomb Raider and Crysis 3 are regularly seen in our hardware benchmarks, and recorded the same performance as the previous driver.” So it’s pretty much a PR stunt like Nvidia did vs none Nvidia games such as Thief, BF4, and Tomb Raider… okay I get it.
We can’t even remember the last time that a new graphics driver came out with this many new features and changes. Good work AMD!
Among all the new features, AMD is also adding some generous performance improvements. On AMD Radeon GPUs, you’ll be able to observe up to 19 percent higher performance than last year’s Catalyst 13.12. Batman: Arkham Origins’ performance went up by 10 percent, Bioshock Infinite by 19 percent, COD: Ghosts by 11 percent,Grid 2 by 8 percent, Sniper Elite 3 by 9 percent, and Rome 2: Total War by 9 percent.
Performance on AMD APUs has also been improved. Compared to the Catalyst 14.2 driver, Batman: Arkham Origins improved by 29 percent, Bioshock Infinite by 7 percent,DOTA 2 by 16 percent, FIFA Online by 6 percent, Lego Batman 3 by 19 percent, Star Craft 2 by 5 percent, and COD: Advanced Warfare by 10 percent.
Hey, that’s a lot of added value for your graphics card.
This is the biggest driver release that we’ve seen from AMD in a very long time, and mind you, we haven’t written up all the changes. For the complete list of changes you can look at the changelog on AMD’s website. You can download the Catalyst Omega driver directly from AMD immediately.
THAT’S WHAT IT SAID YOU…I AM DONE TALKING HERE
He just doesn’t like it, why else would NVIDIA users come here and post benchmarks of cards they haven’t got? To troll that’s all. Take benchmarks with a pinch of salt ,even one has gains or not, not just benchmarks on a GPU that can’t be replicated time and time again in real world gaming.
I could really care less about what you think man. you are just a schmuck that pretends like it’s all new tech or something… I mean give me a break. it’s all marketing. AMD/Nvidia both do it. And guy’s like you just suck it all up
Well ,you’re in here caring about AMD benchmarks so you do care.
Done as well. And yeah for AMD it’s big but all this stuff Nvidia user’s have had for a while now
Watch Dogs is TWIMTBP title not AMD. BF4, Sleeping Dogs, Tomb Raider, Crysis 3, Bioshock Infinite all ran well anyway you can even look at the frame-rate latency, really good on AMD cards.
Why would I not be happy with Tomb Raider 2013 running with 4xSSAA, TressFX, 1080 high, tessellation 30-40fps?
Why would I not be happy with Sleeping Dogs averaging over 80fps on ultra?
Why would I not be happy with Crysis 3 running at 40-70fps on high?
Why wouldn’t anyone not be happy with a £155 card and a £130 CPU with those frame-rates?
See my images at the top that been approved, look at the FPS and CPU core usage.
True
Well, they tested one card, on one system, hardly what you call a good conclusive analysis. NVIDIA’s shader cache only helps CPU bound games not games in general. As for “wonder driver” yes it is in regard to Assassins Creed Unity. I see more than 20fps difference in the city, put that in your pipe and smoke it and it’s consistence across GPUs for people here and people on the Ubisoft forums.
Its 6-12 FPS more (lower FPS is better)
After trying Far Cry 4 and AC: Unity. FC4 only has 1-2FPS gain, however Unity has almost a 10-20FPS improvement on a 280x.
OMFG sweet words over there idk how many are 100% true in special with that 50% + in FC4 !
Its like reading from a Nvidia driver page but only a few months ago i can’t belive this !
KUDOS NVIDIA GAME READY DRIVER ohh upps i am sorry KUDOS AMD OMEGA driver !
Nvidia atm made a hotfix driver session kinda pathetic!
PS: Competition its good now prepare for Nvidia move …remeber the same was with “Mantle” and Nvidia fighted back with mindblowing drivers 40+ FPS in all games!
Just shut up man, same crappy words from you and you don’t have an anything AMD.
Yea i do (most of my life i had AMD(Ati) in special at GPU ) and most of my friends got AMD GPU+i5 , they are not so idiotic to get a AMD CPU though lol!
i7 ofc is the best solution 4/8 with HT there u can see games like Crysis 3 in some maps there are even 20+ FPS.
Saying someone is an idiot for buying somwthing that that suits them better is outright fanboy talk. SO what you used to have ATI, you don’t now so f*ck off,
i7 are the best solution if you want the best no matter how much you pay, it’s £240 you idiot, 8350 is £130. i5 are just quad-cores, so 2007, HT is just fake cores that cause more issues so half the time you disable it and it’s all you pay an extra £100 more for fake cores.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICVeN6WEGgg
fanboy……. says the guy that one year ago was defending Nvidia with his own life.
AMD GPU as i said great if they are going in this way and path i will go with an AMD GPU for sure i already saved the money for GTX 970 so if AMD comes with something better at the same price.lower power consumption i will go AMD .
Guys AMD F*CKN Suxs!!
nVidia is on another lever, once nVidia you never should look back to crap like AMD!
There you have it boys, AMD SU*KS and you know it 😉
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Ok.
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You suck mate, not NVIDIA, not AMD, you.
If you’re into graphic cards you owe it to yourself to watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uoD8YKwtww
37:40 – 42:15
omg wtf is with this AMD worthship BS… gameworks just fine when AMD’s drivers are made right for it. Just play PC games and don’t worry about AMD or Nvidia’s marketing BS.
What AMD worship? And here you with no AMD hardware commenting on something that really doesn’t affect you. At least he’s honest, he doesn’t claim Mantle will take over the world or beat DirectX. Devs want a graphics API that’s easy and light weight ,they’ve been asking for something like Mantle for a very long time and DX is linked to Windows version and is STILL high level linked deep to the WDM.
Also, you hear him speak about how good FrostBite engine is, that’s totally true, just look at Dragon Age: Inquisition Benchmarks, CPU optimisation is totally true and scaled beautifully.
At least he’s honest. Yea.. people working for corporations are known for their non biased honesty. Trusting him, or anyone working at AMD, Intel or Nvidia, or any other corporation is f’ing ridicules. It’s how massive fancrazies are made.
Ohh i was getting excited for nothing its like “as John said the Nvidia wonder scam” even worse
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Catalyst_14.12_Performance/
Look at my frame-rates now and holly sh*t look at all my 8 CPU cores working over time.
http://i.imgur.com/QedOd7w.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/1Ck1HLZ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/GRNI8pN.jpg
Benchmark numbers LOL, Semantic benchmarks higher numbers, both CPUs perform well at 1080p, Tek has a different approach, their benchmarks see all games perfectly payable because it becomes irrelevant that Intel get 140fps and AMD get 110fps LOL
JayzTwoCent said the same thing, most the time you just can’t tell the different when playing at such settings, the game becomes GPU bound anyway. The only time Intel CPU truly make a different is heavy CPU bound games like ARMA, total War series, CPU bound games are pretty rare now days anyway and Beyond Earth Support Mantle so both CPUs can get a boost.
I actually based on the fact that this video is old and Dragon Age Inquisition benchmarks proved what he said, so does Battlefield 4. Also John in his Analysis of DA Inquisition backs that up as well.
Google “Omega driver acu” top search result, my thread, 5640 views
AMD Omega Driver, Massive boost in Frame-rate for ACU:
“thats beautiful….if only nvidia would release something that works. i got a 770 play on 900p everything….EVERYTHING is low to nothing and i get 19-35. but i get 70 looking straight up ”