AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta Download

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/27/2014 12:15 PM [ 483 comment(s) ]

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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

Please read: Windows 8.1 is supported with this Beta driver whilst Windows 8 is not.

Starting with AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta, AMD will no longer support Windows 8.0 (and the WDDM 1.2 driver)
Users should upgrade (for Free) to Windows 8.1 to take advantage of the new features found in the AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta
AMD Catalyst 14.4 will remain available for users who wish to remain on Windows 8

A future AMD Catalyst release will allow for the WDDM 1.1 (Windows 7 driver) to be installed under Windows 8.0 for those users unable to upgrade to Windows 8.1

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

Download Locations

Download Desktop Driver Windows Vista/7/8.1 32 and 64 bit [ 46837 downloads | Report broken link ]

Download APU and Mobile Driver Windows Vista/7/8.1 32 and 64 bit [ 14833 downloads | Report broken link ]

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fragba1t
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#4826042 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:09 AM

I posted about this in the 'Upcoming AMD Catalyst 14.6 driver slides' thread and confirm they are fine.

Edit: Watch Dogs runs quite a bit better for me now, before it would dip below 30fps every so often, haven't seen it below 40fps yet!

Ltmatt
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#4826043 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:10 AM

Please upload to an alternate host whoever gets it downloaded. The original link has stopped working, too many people downloading i suspect.

eclap
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#4826044 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:12 AM

Please upload to an alternate host whoever gets it downloaded. The original link has stopped working, too many people downloading i suspect.

yes, please.

spectatorx
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#4826046 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:14 AM

It didn't stop to work, it just need long time to start download, up to few minutes. I was wondered with it too and that's why i said their download works a bit weird.

Shmaks
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#4826047 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:14 AM

What do you think, can we expect from this driver performance increase on HD5850 in WatchDogs?

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