AMD has released a new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, this driver is optimized for Forza Motorsport 6: Apex and offers up to 27% better performance versus Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.2 on AMD Radeon R9 Fury X.
Those interested can download this new driver from here.
And here are the highlights for the Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.1:
Support for:
- Performance increased up to 27% versus Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.2 on AMD Radeon R9 Fury X(1)
Known Issues
- A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved “In Game Overlay”.
- HDMI Scaling options may not be available in Radeon Settings on some system configurations or some applications may ignore the HDMI Scaling options setting.
- The option to enable/disable AMD Crossfire technology logo may be missing on some system configurations from the Gaming, Global Options tab in Radeon Settings.
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt inventory and character pages may exhibit flickering in AMD Crossfire technology mode.
- Radeon Settings game manager does not display icons for Origin Games.
(1) Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of April 3, 2016 on the AMD Radeon Fury X, on a test system comprising Intel i7 5960X CPU, 16GB DDR4-2666 Mhz system memory, Radeon Software Crimson Edition driver 16.4.2 and Radeon Software Crimson Edition driver 16.5.1 and Windows 10 x64 using the game Forza Motorsport 6: Apex. PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. At 3840×2160, Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.2 scored 47.58 and Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.1 scored 60.69 on AMD Radeon R9 Fury X, which is 27.5% faster performance. Test results are not average and may vary.
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APEX should be a representative benchmark for DX12. But nope…
If it’s available ONLY on Win10, and ONLY in DX12 mode, it’s one of flagship games of Microsoft, the OWNER of DirectX. Why doesn’t it benefit from it, even remotely as good as advertised?
Seems they sold us a huge jug of snake oil…
What are you talking about? It’a a DX12 only game, which is the only way to get the largest benefit from the coding. It’s built from the ground up to support it. Are you complaining that it doesn’t have a DX11 mode to compare it to?
I cannot for the life of me understand your comment.
Why would you say it’s not benefiting? You’ve obviously not played it yet as it’s not even out in alpha form.
Horrible system requirements and graphics that aren’t revolutionary. And I’m not too demanding because it was Microsoft who was advertising DX12 as a breaktrough, not imaginative players.
It isn’t in alpha form? So why there’s an open beta available today?
The graphics look amazing to me. I personally love the clean look.
It’s not available yet. It’s actually tomorrow. Unless it’s launching somewhere earlier elsewhere in the world.
From their official site:
“Following the beta release on May 5, we invite players to download the game and get involved.”
May 5 is today!
Game will be available at 4pm GMT
But you’ve not played it, so everything you’ve said is gibberish. It’s still not available. Not yet anyway.
Games available on both DX12 and DX11 can’t show true power of DX12. Game must be write exclusive to DX12 to get most of it. Check Quantum break – currently best looking game on PC
Or you can wait one day for Battlefield 5. It will be first EA game “directx 12 only”
If they discard DX11 and focus only on DX12 then graphics it will be much better. Its important if they want sell more copies than COD which is still game form DX11 era. Only if they remove old DX11 code we get all power of out GPU’s (async shaders etc)
For Vulkan games you must wait at least two more years. Its very new standard – version 1.0 was 3 months ago. DX12 was available for game developers from early 2014 but we get first games in 2016. In 2018 we will also have great Vulkan games
They already used Mantle, so I don’t see it a stretch that it’s going to use DX12, especially considering the XB1 port will be using the technology.
I would also like to see a AAA title with the Vulkan only API.
It has great graphics but look at those requirements! It looks as though DX12 wasn’t even helping there.
“It has great graphics but look at those requirements”
Current hardware is too slow for DX12 games eg. nvidia dosn’t have async shaders, amd doesn’t have conservative rasterization etc. That hardware was designed for DX11 era. But new hardware will arrive tomorrow – GTX 1070, GTX 1080. I hope that it will be fast enough for DX12 titles. It will be designed for DX12.
I can’t wait for GTX 1080 to show real power of DX12 in Battlefield 5. One more day 🙂
Dx12 was supposed to help weak hardware to perform better hence the low level access not making the game even more demanding or increase VRAM usage. True the game might need to be built specifically for DX12 in mind but dev also must have the willingness to optimize for every architecture available to maximize the performance potential. and yet there are already dev out there that against doing so even encorage other dev not to do vendor specific optimization (which defeat the purpose of going low level in the first place)
I like this game. Its best looking game on PC. First “true DX12 game”
Um it is not coming tomorrow and bf5 is a rumor to be showcased with nvidia. The only info on bf can be found on amd gaming evolved twitter page. The new polaris/pascal will be available for the masses in june.
p,s you are talking about dx 12.1 not dx 12
LOL, let him have is fun…Nv sheep almost pushed me to tears BS.
BF5 isnt showcasing with pascal gpu bruh, but you can keep dreaming, and you know what else you should keep dreaming about………pascal launch tomorrow. LOOOOL XD.
Cool.. AMD releasing drivers 6x now in a year.. This is just wooow..Thanks AMD for the great support and well done!!
I’ve been waiting so so so long for this. I was practically begging for this game, and now here it is.
Please run well. Please please please.
Crap, now I need a racing wheel.
Glad to see AMD stepping up support. Hopefully they can do the same for their Linux drivers soon.