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AMD Catalyst 15.11.1 Beta Driver Available, Packs Performace Improvements For Latest Triple-A Titles

AMD has released a new beta driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the AMD Catalyst 15.11.1 Beta driver features quality and performance optimizations for Fallout 4, Star Wars: Battlefront, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate and Call of Duty: Black Ops III. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 15.11.1 Beta Driver Available, Packs Performace Improvements For Latest Triple-A Titles

AMD/NVIDIA Market-Share Q3 2015 – NVIDIA Conquers But AMD Gains Momentum With A 0.8% Increase

Back in August, we informed you about the AMD/NVIDIA market share for Q2 2015. As we said back then, NVIDIA has been dominating the discrete GPU market. And a couple of days ago, Jon Peddie Research shared its latest data for Q3 2015, in which AMD has seen an increase of 0.8% in the discrete GPU market. Continue reading AMD/NVIDIA Market-Share Q3 2015 – NVIDIA Conquers But AMD Gains Momentum With A 0.8% Increase

AMD Catalyst 15.11 Beta Driver Released – Optimized For Call of Duty: Black Ops III

AMD has released the Catalyst 15.11 Beta driver that includes quality and performance optimizations for Call of Duty: Black Ops III. AMD users, be warned however that flickering may be observed when running the game in DX11  mode and with AMD Crossfire enabled. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 15.11 Beta Driver Released – Optimized For Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Radeon Software Crimson Edition Announced – Aiming To Boost Six Key Values – First Version Coming This Year

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. Continue reading Radeon Software Crimson Edition Announced – Aiming To Boost Six Key Values – First Version Coming This Year

AMD Catalyst 15.10 Beta Driver Available, Brings DX12 Optimizations For “Ashes of the Singularity”

AMD has released a new beta driver for its graphics cards. According to its release notes, the AMD Catalyst 15.10 Beta driver comes with DirectX 12 quality and performance optimization for Ashes of the Singularity. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 15.10 Beta Driver Available, Brings DX12 Optimizations For “Ashes of the Singularity”

AMD Catalyst 15.9.1 Beta Driver Released, Fixes Video Memory Leak

AMD has released a new beta driver for its graphics cards that fixes the video memory leak that was spotted in its previous driver release. The AMD Catalyst 15.9.1 Beta is optimized for both Star Wars: Battlefront’s upcoming beta and Fable: Legends’ DX12 benchmark, so make sure to download this driver. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 15.9.1 Beta Driver Released, Fixes Video Memory Leak

AMD’s Robert Hallock: “The vast majority of DX12 titles in 2015/2016 are partnering with AMD”

It appears that AMD is trying to capitalize on its GCN architecture and the fact that it’s more future proof than what NVIDIA is currently offering. Not only that, but according to the Head of Global Technical Marketing at AMD, Robert Hallock, the vast majority of DX12 titles in the next two years will be partnering with the red team. Continue reading AMD’s Robert Hallock: “The vast majority of DX12 titles in 2015/2016 are partnering with AMD”

Oculus Employees: “Preemption for context switches is best on AMD, Nvidia possibly catastrophic”

It appears that after the whole 970 VRAM fiasco, there is a new story that haunts NVIDIA. As we’ve already reported, NVIDIA’s GPUs are really weak in Async Compute scenarios. And according to some Oculus employees, Preemption for context switches is possibly catastrophic for NVIDIA’s GPUs. Continue reading Oculus Employees: “Preemption for context switches is best on AMD, Nvidia possibly catastrophic”