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AMD Catalyst 14.12 Driver - The Omega Driver - Meet Omega

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/09/2014 07:16 AM [ 4] 30 comment(s)

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AMD Radeon Catalyst 14.12 - Meet the Omega Driver

AMD is getting ready for the winter, in this article we look at what AMD labeled the 'Omega Driver'. This naming has nothing to do with an old Catalyst modder who went by this name; this is the new 14.12 Catalyst driver which has had some TLC from AMD. The new driver overall is improving performance on a number of games, and next to that AMD is injecting a few new features as well. Time for a quick article to cover all topics.

The December Omega driver obviously is an incremental driver update just as we have seen on roughly a monthly release schedule. The driver team has put a lot of focus on consumer feedback and tries to deal and adapt towards the demand from you guys. In fact if you have any feedback and/or bug-reports, please do visit this link.
 


For Catalyst 14.12 I wanted to write a small article as the updates in this driver are significant for APUs and desktop graphics cards. The past few months the driver team has been working on a series of driver optimizations. Interestingly enough, most games that we tested show some sort of performance increase, and that's throughout the Guru3D software suite.

Catalyst changes and updates can be bulleted up towards these features.:

  • Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
  • Video playback enhancements
  • 5K LCD Panel Support
  • Frametime Frame Pacing enhancements
  • Performance optimizations for APUs
  • Performance optimizations for Dedicated graphics cards 
You can download the driver here.

The most prominent one will be VSR rendering, you guys also know this as super sampling and as DSR from Nvidia. We'll walk through some of these features.  

Next page please where we'll talk about that a little more.

 




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