Download AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta driver

The AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta driver is notable release for us for a couple reasons:

• Mantle is now enabled for notebooks based on AMD Enduro technology
• Mixed-resolution AMD Eyefinity configurations are now supported for SLS
• Performance improvements for Watch Dogs
• Performance improvements for Murdered: Soul Suspect

Watch Dogs:

• AMD Radeon R9 290X - 1920x1080 4xMSAA – improves up to 25%
• AMD Radeon R9 290X - 2560x1600 4xMSAA – improves up to 28%
• AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra settings, MSAA = 4X) - 92% scaling

Murdered: Soul Suspect:

• AMD Radeon R9 290X – 2560x1600 4xMSAA – improves up to 16%
• AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra settings, MSAA = 4X) - 93% scaling
• AMD Eyefinity Verbesserungen:

Mixed Resolution Support

• A new architecture providing brand new capabilities
• Display groups can be created with monitors of different resolution (including difference sizes and shapes)
• Users have a choice of how surface is created over the display group
• Fill – legacy mode, best for identical monitors
• Fit – create the Eyefinity surface using best available rectangular area with attached displays.
• Expand – create a virtual Eyefinity surface using desktops as viewports onto the surface.
• Eyefinity Display Alignment
• Enables control over alignment between adjacent monitors
• One-Click Setup
• Driver detects layout of extended desktops
• Can create Eyefinity display group using this layout in one click!
• New user controls for video color and display settings

Greater control over Video Color Management:

• Controls have been expanded from a single slider for controlling Boost and Hue to per color axis
• Color depth control for Digital Flat Panels (available on supported HDMI and DP displays)
• Allows users to select different color depths per resolution and display

AMD Mantle enhancements

• Mantle now supports AMD Mobile products with Enduro technologyEnables support for Multi-GPU configurations with Thief (requires the latest Thief update).
• Battlefield 4: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1366x768; high settings) – 21% gain
• Thief: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920x1080; high settings) – 14% gain
• Star Swarm: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920x1080; medium settings) – 274% gain

AMD AM1 JPEG decoding acceleration

• JPEG decoding acceleration was first enabled on the A10 APU Series in AMD Catalyst 14.1 beta, and has now been extended to the AMD AM1 Platform
• Provides fast JPEG decompression
• Provides Power Efficiency for JPEG decompression