AMD Readies Massive Radeon Software Update with Crimson Relive Drivers – Performance Increases For R

Nasher · 6 Dec 2016 at 18:07

They have been a LOT better recently with drivers. Drivers were the reason I went Nvidia for the past 10 years. But now that is reversing :/

shankly1985 · 6 Dec 2016 at 18:11

Wattman now supported on more GPU range

shankly1985 · 6 Dec 2016 at 18:13

Nasher said:
They have been a LOT better recently with drivers. Drivers were the reason I went Nvidia for the past 10 years. But now that is reversing :/

Guess you was using crossfire? Amd single GPU drivers have been fine for years.

dits · 6 Dec 2016 at 18:13

Will this turn any AMD card into Nvidia beating beasts?

TNA · 6 Dec 2016 at 18:15

Nasher said:
They have been a LOT better recently with drivers. Drivers were the reason I went Nvidia for the past 10 years. But now that is reversing :/

Not had any issues with NVidia drivers myself. Though I did read there was an issue with memory clock being stuck and not boosting recently. But I don't update my drivers every 5 minutes so did not experience it

qwerty567111 · 6 Dec 2016 at 18:17

"Confidential", "Under NDA until Dec 8th 9am EST" .... lol

shankly1985 · 6 Dec 2016 at 18:18

qwerty567111 said:
"Confidential", "Under NDA until Dec 8th 9am EST" .... lol

It's a leak, we shouldn't be reading any of this. Someone has been very bad

qwerty567111 · 6 Dec 2016 at 18:25

Videocardz has a nice little summary, Radeon Chill sounds interesting

http://videocardz.com/64496/amd-preparing-crimson-relive-driver-update

nashathedog · 6 Dec 2016 at 18:28

shankly1985 said:
Chill thing sounds interesting

qwerty567111 said:
Radeon Chill sounds interesting

400 series only though

plus it's only for 18 different games on the DX 9, 10 & 11 api's, Although they hope to add future games to the list and possibly DX12.

qwerty567111 · 6 Dec 2016 at 18:34

I'm glad TW3 is on the list

shankly1985 · 6 Dec 2016 at 18:35

nashathedog said:
400 series only though
plus it's only for 18 different games on the DX 9, 10 & 11 api's, Although they hope to add future games to the list and possibly DX12.

Yeah seen that, I expect a lot of this stuff is for new plus newer GPUs.
Am cool with all that tbh, even recording.
The only thing from the list that am expecting is Freesync window mode and wattman.
Maybe some extra performance love

Panos · 6 Dec 2016 at 18:35

Nexus18 said:
All aboard the hype train!

Can they improve the 290 even further!? Either way looking forward to this.

290 is like the Duracell advertisement.
While the 780, 780Ti, Titan Black, 970, 980 have bitten the dust becoming obsolete, the 290 (especially the X), still alive and strong, when no other graphics card survived her 4th birthday!

shankly1985 · 6 Dec 2016 at 18:37

Panos said:
290 is like the Duracell advertisement.
While the 780, 780Ti, Titan Black, 970, 980 have bitten the dust becoming obsolete, the 290 (especially the X), still alive and strong, when no other 4 years old graphic card survived!

The AMD way

Nexus18 · 6 Dec 2016 at 18:39

I really just hope they have added an adaptive vsync and fast sync option like what nvidia have and 21.9 VSR support. Anything else is a bonus.

shankly1985 · 6 Dec 2016 at 18:44

Nexus18 said:
I really just hope they have added an adaptive vsync and fast sync option like what nvidia have and 21.9 VSR support. Anything else is a bonus.

Doubt it, I feel it would have been in the list.

southernorth · 6 Dec 2016 at 18:50

This is all ofcourse speculation until the 9th, but what perf gains are expected here for say a 480 in DX11, 10℅+?

Seems anything but noticeable gains are meaningless

ltron · 6 Dec 2016 at 18:55

Nexus18 said:
I alt tab out all the time when gaming and yes borderless is more "smooth" for that but fullscreen works perfectly fine too, still takes less than a second to alt tab out and browse the web and less than a second to get back into game.

If people are seriously into their MMO's or multi-tasking, I imagine that they would have a dual monitor setup for such things.

Some games don't have a true fullscreen mode even though they label it as such. It's a pity Freesync doesn't work in these at the moment, it's great news that this is going to change.

shankly1985 · 6 Dec 2016 at 19:00

ltron said:
Some games don't have a true fullscreen mode even though they label it as such. It's a pity Freesync doesn't work in these at the moment, it's great news that this is going to change.

never had any issue here what games?

Nexus18 · 6 Dec 2016 at 19:09

Also curious as to what games don't have proper fullscreen support? I can't recall of any from the top of my mind.

Nasher · 6 Dec 2016 at 19:18

Some use a boarderless window, not true full screen. They are seen differently by drivers :/