AMD revealed today a new software strategy and announced details of AMD’s latest drivers, Radeon Software Crimson Edition. The Radeon Software Crimson Edition will replace AMD’s Catalyst software, and aims to boost six key values.
These key values are: Pro Graphics, Gaming, VR/AR, Immersion, performance and efficiency.
As AMD claimed, the Radeon Software is a driver that will be much more than meets the eye, and among other things will feature re-imagined Radeon settings.
These new Radeon settings will sport a new brushed metal design, a new and more intuitive navigation system, a new game manager, new Overdrive/Video/Display/AMD Eyefinity options, and it will be faster at start up.
The first version of the Radeon Software Crimson Edition will be released before the end of this year.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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So they’re copying Geforce Experience. Took them long enough, wow, much pleased, very news.
No reason not to. 🙂 I cant wait to see their spin on it. Im sure it wont be a total copy lol. I love people that come up with good ideas, but i love even more people that perfect those ideas.
I love flat UI, that’s what I do, that’s what I expect to see. So right now, AMD has a +1. But Nvidia came up with this UX first. I’m just worried about (C).
If you’re an NVIDIA user, then this has zero impact on you. Instead of being butthurt about “copying”, you should be happy for AMD users because they’re getting something good. I’ve been an AMD user since 2003 and I still get excited about new products from NVIDIA. In the end, we’re all PC gamers no matter what hardware we use.
Read my replies, you got it all wrong.
I thought you were being sarcastic when you said “great”.
nah it’s all good 🙂
Good for guys like me that enjoy multiple builds and variation on vendors. Now both companies have even more reason to improve services and software and steal my hard earned dollars. Good times.
They are only stolen, if you fall for it 🙂
But I doubt that, if they are ‘hard earned’.
great AMD
Nothing wrong with trying to move in a better direction. Honestly I feel like AMD has a better grasp on things right now and it is just going to take them a bit of time to put all their plans into action but the end result is going to be pretty amazing. On the other end I think Nvidia is slowly becoming the company that is failing at telling customers what they need. It’s going to hurt them in the long run.
I’ve been reading up on their conference calls and the direction they’ve been wanting to take since just before Rory Reed came on board to complete his “sharking”. With all the shifting they’ve been doing and the directions they’ve planned, they definitely are better than the older management that put AMD into the position its in today. This team dealt with it the best they could, however with their products coming out next year we’ll find out if it was enough. If only these folks came on sooner.
Other than the 980 Ti, Radeon has all the best cards in every price range at the moment.
So true!!!
The cards themselves are good, but do they perform as good in games? Because in my case I’ve tried 6 different games with my computer, in all of them using two cards to compare the FPS: GTX 670 and HD 7950 Boost Vapor-X 1100/1400. GTX 670 performed better in all games by far (for example stable 60 fps in The Crew on almost highest settings with 670 while struggling to get 40 fps in cities like Miami with the 7950 Boost), whether they were nvidia or amd optimized. I mean, maybe with really high end AMD cards it’s better, but nvidia seems to be the better choice for games these days just because of the optimization.
Comparing 4 year old cards against each other shouldn’t really give you a good idea of current landscape in GPUs, also you have to factor in cost of a card (like in your case HD 7950 being 70$ cheaper than GTX 670 at launch)
Since GCN is more future proof it is actually not bad to compare them, especially on DX12!
Why does the price difference matter if the performance in games was mostly the same up until 2014: http://anandtech.com/bench/product/1033?vs=1349 ? AMD cards are also cheaper than their Nvidia counterparts nowadays too, while being equal in performance as some say, so what’s the point?
My comment was meant to say tha up until 2014 both cards were equal in performance like you can see in that link, but with the newly released games optimization got worse and worse for AMD while still being quite nice for GTX 670 (that’s why the latter keeps performing astoundingly even today and that’s why people had to upgrade from their old HD 7xxx /2xx series to something newer).
AHAHAHAHAHA! Are you even serious bro?
Your facts… or just trolling as always?
amd does not have phsyx. amd automaticalyy is considered sh*t sh*t. only poor people buy amd. enjoy your no drivers still.
Can confirm, only reason I bought 980ti over fury X
Good to see, hopefully it works well. It’s better for all of us consumers if AMD comes back swinging. Quite frankly, Nvidia is a little too comfy up top at the moment.
Looks slick, good. Looking forward to it.
My GPU (GTX560Ti OC 1GB) died like 3 weeks ago (thunderstorm, a lightning hit and my PC froze…GPU said “bye Fox”) so not sure what to get yet for 1080p.
I don’t want to go “cheap” this time so not sure if going for the GTX970 or the R380/90 since I still don’t have the money. But sure 980Ti or R9 Fury are out of my reach and both overkill any ways.
AMD is trying and despite all the crap is getting their GPU’s are good aside from power consumption. If they can make a proper environment for their drivers and give proper support for once a game is released like Nvidia does…I would probably change since it is time for a change.
About power consumption did you see this?
Well that’s not such a big difference after all if those numbers are accurate. I don’t mind the power consumption too much since I own a 850W Plus Bronze power supply, so I can deal with any GPU. (yes even a 295X2)
Hum…going to check those prices again. This is so hard!! lol
it looks like a small difference but keep in mind that adds up over time when you get the power bill especially if you’re running more than 1 amd card
Forget about 4K now.With Gtx 970 3.5+05GB not a chance.
Better play at 1440p than 4K in these days.
That 8GB Black Edition looks good and play good.
Go with the 370x or 960 to hold you over till next year, if you don’t game at higher resolutions. Will give you enough power to play (albeit at lower visual fidelity) and give you some time to save money. Seriously, halving the process node, double the performance to wattage, HBM, GDDR5X, theres many reasons to hold off.
Finally something to replace CCC, never liked it.
Always used ATI Tray Tools (R.I.P. you magnificent bastard) or Radeon Pro.
Going to keep and eye on this, perhaps I can come back to AMD. 🙂
I hope this will help them to catch up with Nvidia Inspector. Both, ATI Tray Tools and RadeonPro were abandoned. Despite that they’re still working, they’re nowhere near close to Inspector when it comes to functionality.
“abandoned” isn’t the right word, ATI tray
tools is long gone (as we can tell from the name “ATI” in it) and wasn’t
bringing much anyway.
RadeonPro was a brilliant piece of
software and its developer was employed by Raptr, therefore the development had
to stop! Unfortunately creating 3rd party software and software from vendor
itself are 2 very different things and even though AMD knew RadeonPro will get
obsolete eventually (and NVidia is trying to create eventually their own
platform within PC platform), they obviously needed time to address this. They
coming actually in quite good time along with the release of very new OS and API.
This is good new. AMD fans have been wanting an all in one software suite for sometime. I personally have had AMD mostly because of the included games were always something I wanted.
I want the most barebones drivers I can get. This “new design” stuff worries me. New design usually means “runs and controls worse”. Hopefully what they say about faster boot time is true. And hopefully they didn’t cram all the optional features from before into this as mandatory.
i hope they are going to up date driver more frequently like nvidia since i got win 10 and a fx 6350 and ican see the boost im all amd now.the intel/nvidia guys can stay behind on win 7 and dx11 while amd out preforms on win 10 and dx12…lol
So how about the rest of the driver, is that being updated/optimized?
This is Good! AMD has Crimson, Nvidia has GFE. Let the competition begin! Huge win for PC users!
I didn’t think I’d ever agree with you but I do.
What a coincidence. The other day, I was thinking that AMD should update the Catalyst Control Centre. I’m glad they’re finally doing that.
It just looks like a smartphone app.
Good news indeed. And it looks much more modern than Catalyst.