Radeon Software Crimson Driver (15.11) WHQL Driver Performance Analysis
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Ryu5uzaku
Good stuff. I checked some other benchies too it seems all around perf increases. Of course it seems experience varies. DX9 got improved frame pacing. And FLC seems to be good when fps drops under freesync limit with or w/o v-sync smoother then before.
Great review as always.
pbvider
Better than nothing.
Ven0m
Thanks for the review, Hilbert!
They claimed better frame pacing. Is there any difference in animation smoothness? Will you add FCAT benchmarks?
Turanis
This driver is almost the same as 15.11.1.
But this driver is more about stability in some Gw games,e.g The Witcher 3.
NAZ2222
Why do you call this driver Beta 7? Did you not use the WQL version from the AMD site?
labidas
no performance difference, how come?
~10% gains
pokyeah88
somehow borderlands 2 and presequel felt smoother, but didnt know it's because of the placebo effect or not, but i love the new ui.
Blackfyre
Yeah it's unbelievable how much of a performance difference it makes for the Witcher 3. For me, all micro-stuttering is finally gone. Especially in cities and large towns walking/running around among large crowds was frustrating at times; and it really put you off the game. This no longer is the case.
I noticed performance increases in GTA 5 (ever so slightly as reported by Guru3D).
Running multiple benchmarks I noticed a small percentage of improvement in all of them (I ran 2-3 hours of benchmarking before updating from 15.11.1 to Crimson), but the most impressive thing is that wherever micro-stuttering seemed to exist, it has now either decreased significantly or vanished completely.
Juliuszek
It is a pity that CPU Overdrive is missing. In my opinion it was a nice tool (included in CCC) for those having AMD CPUs.
I tested the beta version of CRIMSON for my legacy HD5870 and it was very nice.
But I reverted back to CCC because I did not want to go to BIOS and overclock my CPU from there (I do not remember how to overclock my CPU using BIOS in that old mobo anyway, in CCC it is much simpler).
Yakk
Thanks for the info!
On the smoothness front, maybe also showing minimum frame rate would be helpful.
zer0_c0ol
HH
fury x review with crimson ?
vbetts
Moderator
Horray! 2 more fps! 😀
Turanis
You can do it by yourself.You have nothing to lose.
vbetts
Moderator
Wow man, that was unnecessary. :X
Tree Dude
Sarcasm aside, small gains like that over several driver releases can add up. I am happy AMD is putting in the effort to make some performance improvements.
Undying
True, 2fps with every driver adds up indeed. What nvidia have done lately besides those many TDR crashes? :P
vbetts
Moderator
This is true. This is just the beginning of the improvements for the new driver structure.
AMD is really making me happy lately. Gotta flash the Sapphire bios on my Fury X still so I can get some overclocking in!
Seketh
Why isn't Fiji on the benchmarks?
Not that I'm expecting a significant difference, but it makes absolutely no sense to exclude Fiji from this analysis...
Pretty much this. The only thing I got from the last Nvidia release were more TDR crashes.
Denial
Maybe because he's doing a review of the 380x and that happened to be the card in his test system, so he just ran with it?
Your use of the word exclude followed by a ... makes it sound like he intentionally left it out. Which is obviously not the case.
zer0_c0ol
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/amd_radeon_software_crimson_-_overview_and_testing/2
here is the fury x with crimson
