AMD ha lanzados sus nuevos drivers 14.6 beta 1.0 que agregan Eyefinity 3.0, el tan esperado soporte de Crossfire para Watch Dogs, mejoras para Murdered: Soul Suspect y soporte para Mantle para notebooks con tecnologia AMD Enduro.
Changelog completo en inglés con slides de las nuevas caracteristicas:
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 – 1920×1080 4xMSAA – improves up to 25%
- AMD Radeon R9 290X – 2560×1600 4xMSAA – improves up to 28%
- AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire configuration (3840×2160 Ultra settings, MSAA = 4X) – 92% scaling
Murdered: Soul Suspect:
- AMD Radeon R9 290X – 2560×1600 4xMSAA – improves up to 16%
- AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire configuration (3840×2160 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 (1366×768; high settings) – 21% gain
- Thief: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920×1080; high settings) – 14% gain
- Star Swarm: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920×1080; 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
Dejar una respuesta