The first details for AMD’s upcoming new Catalyst driver have been unveiled. According to various reports, this new driver will be called ‘Catalyst Omega Driver’ and will come with AMD’s own downsampling option. Similar to DSR, AMD’s solution is called VSR (Virtual Super Resolution) will allow gamers to super sample their games, rendering them at up to 4K quality before being downscaled to a lower resolution monitor.
Of course, this is nothing new but it’s good to see both NVIDIA and AMD offering native solutions to downsampling. Also – and as most of you may have already guessed – VSR will be quite demanding for new titles, unless of course you’re equipped with AMD’s top of the line GPUs.
In addition, the Catalyst Omega Driver will increase performance in a number of games.
Furthermore, this new driver will further improve frame pacing on both Dual Graphics and CrossFire systems, reducing stuttering and frame time variances.
Kudos to our readers ‘Raushan Seboa’ and ‘Sean’ for informing us about AMD’s new driver!
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Its good to see AMD firing back with what seems to be a quality driver release (time will tell) Even though I mainly use NVidia Cards (only 2 out of 6 of my graphics cards since 2003) have been ATi/AMD I still root for them just as hard as for NVidia, we need the competition which will fuel better tech and prices for us the consumers.
Driver wise I’ve had no reason to complain since I brought my R9 280, not regretted getting it either, moving from a GTX 660. This R9 280 overclocked really well 1100/1500, runs cool and quite and my Corsair RM550 is holding up well, don’t need a bigger PSU. 🙂
yep! I’m using r9 280x oc edition. I love this gpu..
Went from 2x 660’s to a 290x. No regrets either.
290X is great card, probably too fast for HD, but great for aboveHD.
Yes, same here AMD/Nvidia are both great companies and I switch from one to the other depending on what product is hot at the moment.
Same here, I went all AMD this time because of value since AMD prices have come down a lot on both CPU and GPU. I recently brought an FX-8350 for £130, upgraded from a FX-6300.
Gotta get a cpu too
I’m thinking of upgrading my Phenom II x6 soon, but I may switch to Intel. AMD needs to release a new chipset and enthusiast CPU that isn’t just a rework of old stuff or an APU. It’s like working on the consoles set them back a couple years
Yeah, I think they have worked too much on the APU side, the desktop CPUs are stale but I don’t even think a new revision will fix their poor single-thread performance. AMD can only seem to compete on value, while Intel charge a lot more for their K versions.
After thinking it over for a few weeks, I came to the conclusion that I don’t need to spend an extra £120 on a Intel setup over a FX-8350 just for a bit more performance in games, when I have a solid AMD setup that works very well.
it’s coming also with DX12 you’ll see AMD’s performance jump a ton
Especially minFPS, elimination of stuttering, etc. Something that even with the most expensive intel cannot get rid of it.
Intel also have not done much for enthusiast for last couple of generations. AMD FX are solid CPU and the only reason why they fail to compete is DX! The question is: is the best thing, the problem of DX trying to solve by supporting company that has history of unfair practices and never offered any real solution to this problem, or support company that has solution for that problem? AMD showed us many times they can do miracles with fraction of resources.
Didn’t you say you were gonna go intel rather? Did you buy that cpu with the future in mind?
I was but I decided to stick with AMD for now. If I upgrade anything it’s going to be my R9 280.
Well at this point consoles=jaggy sub30 fps edition.
i just cant take them seriously compared to what pc offers.
Hopefully the overall performance update is something similar to what Nvidia did with their drivers earlier in the year. That update helped improve performance in quite a few games and I have wondered since why AMD couldn’t just do something like that with their drivers. I had 2x 660 at the time and now have a 290x.
I failed to find benchmarks that would confirmed that. Nvidia with their wonder driver promised better DX optimizations but all benchmarks i saw never manage to proof a boost other that in SLI (and SLI is still worse that Xfire XDMA anyway). There were a couple of games that had better CPU utilization for geforce but for most of them AMD released drivers to fix that and rest of them was nvidia titles with physX or gameworks. So i hear this a lot but if that would be truth, we wouldnt need a new DX, mantle etc.
It was weird. When I had the SLI 660’s and the “wonder driver” came out, just an example, Assassins Creed 3 which was a fps mess ran all of a sudden perfectly. 60 fps…not frame drops. It was amazing. But Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag still ran like absolute s**t. So it was a “wonder driver” in some instances but made no difference in others.
Nice good job AMD !
I can see why they got a new CEO driver ready in 2 days and now a nice tehnique of AA with good performance!
At least they need to do something in GPU area because on the AMD CPU side they kinda suck!
Such empty words, go troll somewhere else.
Mantle ? AMD CPU’s they are just a funny joke for now and the future as for GPU i am really start to like AMD!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teeNvH42tS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvM3eHGPbt4&index=4&list=UUEDO8gNsdmNimX9i7uQ7isw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFzUz7fDTWI&index=2&list=UUEDO8gNsdmNimX9i7uQ7isw
Guys if you want something good with your GPU get an i3 or a pentium G last gen instead of that crappy FX 8350 !
Like I said, go troll somewhere else and those videos are funny, they show nothing other than being GPU bound.
Here, go learn something, Mantle can make any CPU run at it’s best. Mantle over 12fps faster in this shot alone.
http://i.imgur.com/AQ3lnz7.jpg
You fail to recognize that it is a problem of DX not CPU manufacturer. DX cripples performance of any CPU, even the most expensive ones as you can see in modern games.
dude.. the game they optimized is outdated .. what about new games?
it shame that nVIDIA make their gamework closed,
Great 😀 Im waiting for the Omega Now
Do you remember Omega Tweaked Drivers from That Omega Site? Long time ago…