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AMD Catalyst 14.12 Driver - The Omega Driver - tech
(hx) 04:36 PM CET - Dec,09 2014 - Post a comment / read (9)
AMD has announced a major overhaul of their Catalyst graphics card driver software today, adding new features, improving performance and fixing a large number of bugs. The 'special edition' driver, which is the result of months of work, is one of the biggest AMD has released. The Catalyst Omega driver boasts some serious performance improvements in many hardware configurations due to a more efficient design. AMD states that you can expect up to 19% more performance than the previous driver (Catalyst 14.11.2) when running games on high-end graphics cards, and up to 29% more performance on APU-based systems.
- Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth performance optimizations
  Mantle API activated for ultimate performance in Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare performance optimizations
  Up to 30% performance increases with FXAA and lower game resolutions
  Optimized AMD CrossFire Profile update for improved performance
- Assassin's Creed Unity performance optimizations
  Single GPU performance improvements
  Optimized AMD CrossFire Profile update for improved performance
- Dragon Age: Inquisition performance optimizations
  Up to 15% performance increase in single GPU scenarios with Anti-Aliasing enabled.
  Optimized AMD CrossFire Profile update for improved performance
- Far Cry 4 performance optimizations
  Up to 50% performance increase in single GPU scenarios with Anti-Aliasing enabled.
last 10 comments:
gx-x(11:54 PM CET - Dec,09 2014 )
Tested all except one game from the list, they all work exactly the same. What they did is actually fix crossfire profiles for those games and took the results they got and listed them like all high end cards will get a boost. VSR is also enabled only for R9 285 and above, so screw the middle segment consumers (again), and it remains to be seen if they really did fix the stand-by issue (monitor sometimes wont power on from standby).

Sure, AMD may be best bang for the buck, but you are also getting banged in places you did not want and/or expected.

ir0nw0lf(04:43 PM CET - Dec,10 2014 )
AMD is cooking up a "phase 2" driver that will add VSR capabilities (with 4K downscaling) to additional cards, including everything from the Radeon R7 260 up. That driver is expected in the January-February time frame.

^^ So hang tight

gx-x(06:20 PM CET - Dec,10 2014 )
ir0nw0lf> AMD is cooking up a "phase 2" driver that will add VSR capabilities (with 4K downscaling) to additional cards, including everything from the Radeon R7 260 up. That driver is expected in the January-February time frame.

^^ So hang tight

that's AMD's problem, they are like an old lady with a walker. I have a buyer for my personal AMD card, and have ordered gtx 770.

psolord(07:16 PM CET - Dec,10 2014 )
Seeing none of the review sites say anything about how much better Assassin's Creed Unity runs, has gotten me thinking.

Still I am going to post this.

A while back I posted my 7950 benchmark video with the 14.11.2 driver (spicy wallpaper alert).

[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-F1ux9MV-I"]ASSASSIN'S CREED UNITY 1920X1080 CUSTOM ULTRA RADEON 7950 @1.1Ghz CORE i5 2500k[/URL]

The benchmark result was 36.5fps.

Today I retested with the Omega and just uploaded the video (spicy wallpaper alert).

[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX_EWgOKvdw"][omega] ASSASSIN'S CREED UNITY 1920X1080 CUSTOM ULTRA 7950 @1.1Ghz CORE i5-2500k[/URL]

The benchmark result was 57.5 fps.

Now this is a 57% performance increase and I am trying to find out what I did wrong.

I am using the same settings, same game version, same gpu frequency, same cpu frequency, I loaded the same location and followed the same path, as humanly possible on a dynamic game.

The only other thing that changed, is that now I have 16GBs of RAM, while previously I had 8GBs (same speed for both), but this cannot be it, since the game did not use more that 5GBs in both tests.

The game does run unbelievably better!

I even put together a link on [URL="http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Di-F1ux9MV-I&start1=245&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DxX_EWgOKvdw&start2=383&authorName=snoopsagan"]Youtubedoubler[/URL] that shows a location that the two videos are somewhat in sync.

Still here are two frame caps, from the two respective videos, at the same location. Huge difference!

[URL=http://imgbox.com/Sut5riz5][/URL] [URL=http://imgbox.com/MRbKFqMK][/URL] [URL=http://imgbox.com/8HbtMzCH][/URL] [URL=http://imgbox.com/VNzekAR4][/URL]

gx-x(09:22 PM CET - Dec,10 2014 )
you must have patched it to 1.5, no other explanation. That patch brings performance improvements.

I mena, I tested it with 280x and saw no improvements, around 50 fps on almost max settings with latest patch before I put omega driver, same fps after I put omega driver...280x CF runs better with omega driver but like I said they fixed CF profile, it used to run like 15% better in CF than with single 280x.

psolord(10:02 PM CET - Dec,10 2014 )
It's version 1.30 for sure. I keep portable offline versions handy for my benchmarks, for easy use among my systems.

Maybe there was some specific improvement with the settings I used.

Also maybe the new drivers removed some weird cpu limit that existed before.

Keep in mind that I used 4.8GHz clock for my cpu for both videos and cpu usage was still quite high.

gx-x(10:40 PM CET - Dec,10 2014 )
psolord> It's version 1.30 for sure. I keep portable offline versions handy for my benchmarks, for easy use among my systems.

Maybe there was some specific improvement with the settings I used.

Also maybe the new drivers removed some weird cpu limit that existed before.

Keep in mind that I used 4.8GHz clock for my cpu for both videos and cpu usage was still quite high.

idk, all I know textures look like shit in your screenies no offense. Put them to max and you will have much less fps.

I mean, I watched Total Biscuit play AC:U on dual 980 (SLI 980) and he was barley hitting 60, not even maxed out settings.

PS. Would it be to much trouble if I asked you a favor: put CPU on default or ~3.5 GHz, I wonder if there is more than 2-3 fps impact :P Thanks.

psolord(02:03 AM CET - Dec,11 2014 )
The screenies are frame caps from a video recorded with a camera. It's a benchmark remember?

I posted them for people that didn't want to watch the videos.

Of course I tested with the cpu at stock speed. It is usually below 50fps with my settings, while it is close to 60 with overclock. This game can suck up any resource you throw at it.

gx-x(02:13 AM CET - Dec,11 2014 )
psolord> The screenies are frame caps from a video recorded with a camera. It's a benchmark remember?

I posted them for people that didn't want to watch the videos.

Of course I tested with the cpu at stock speed. It is usually below 50fps with my settings, while it is close to 60 with overclock. This game can suck up any resource you throw at it.

that seems like an unrealistic gain for cpu overclock...10 frames is 15% in that range...I had (yesterday when I was in office testing omega) 50+ fps in 1080p with stock 2500K in that benchmark and 280x. Setting on high, AA off.

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