A few weeks ago AMD has established an internal Radeon Technologies Group, a
division in charge of developing products and solutions specifically targeted at
gamers. The first practical move Radeon Technologies Group is the release of a
new driver package for its different GPU present in commerce, indicated with
the name of Radeon Software.
Over the years the evolution of the drivers for video cards AMD has undergone
process of constant evolution, which allowed to implement new features while at
Due to increasing complexity. For this reason AMD identifies all the component
software matched to their hardware, not as drivers, but as a kind of mini
operating system developed specifically for graphics needs.
From this the name change, with the brand Catalyst adopted to date for drivers
AMD is abandoned in favor of the Radeon Software. Particularly Radeon
Crimson software is the name chosen to designate the first incarnation of this new
approach.
Radeon Software is the name that distinguishes the software package; Crimson Edition
identifies the current version, which in this case will be used for 2015 and
2016, while the specific versions issued from time to time be using a
numerical identification mirrors the one adopted for the Catalyst drivers with the first
two digits of the year and the last two a month.
With AMD Radeon Software aims to achieve two distinct goals: the first is a
improved performance, especially with reference to the latest 3D games
appeared on the market thinking about the specific optimizations related to the latest news
American hardware company. The second is to ensure maximum stability
operational, a result which in many ways is even more important to put
available in more than a few frames per second with some games. All this must
necessarily go hand in hand with the availability of new features, a
element on which AMD had a lot invested about 11 months ago with the release of driver
Catalyst Omega.
With Radeon Software also debuts Radeon Settings, a new control panel
functions related to the video card and the screens connected to the system that takes the
instead of the popular Catalyst Control Center or CCC so far implemented in the drivers
Catalyst. Completely changes the user interface, thereby providing increased
simplicity in view of the different options and their configuration: from
this process more intuitive navigation, and which tries to make even
novice users are able to manage the different options. All enriched by
performance improvements, with a start time that according to internal testing company is
It reduces up to 10.1 compared to previously registered with Catalyst Control
Center.
The panel Game Manager allows you to have a glance of all the immediate
games installed in the system; for each of these you can set specific
quality settings as well as configure different levels of intervention for
hardware parameters of the card. A particularly interesting feature is that
frame rate target control, thanks to which you can select a value of frames
the second default maximum that the system will never go to overcome the
specific game, so as to minimize the consumption of the video industry when the power
available calculation is such as to ensure much more of that maximum value selected
user.
It also changes the menu Overdrive, by which act to vary the specifications of
Operation of the video card in terms of clock frequency of the GPU and memory,
speed of rotation, the target temperature of the GPU and the power limit
power circuitry. The panel also provides a monitoring mode in
real-time, but not the recording of data in a log file to equal to what
accessible for example with GPU-Z.
Other specific panels have been implemented in Radeon software, to manage the
more efficiently options related to the reproduction of video streams over the
configuration screens connected to the system; obviously not missing a section
Specific Eyefinity multimonitor technology developed by AMD with which to manage
efficiently and practical more than 2 screens connected to your system.
AMD Radeon software become available in the coming weeks; It will be a
download free of charge, as is usual for software updates
linked to hardware components. The thorough review of the accompanying software tool
its GPU had long been at work in AMD, and the result expected by the
users. We will test in the coming weeks, with the official release of the software
download, what the differences in usability compared to Catalyst
Control Center and what are the specific features implemented in Radeon software.
A transition of this kind is in any case welcome, as it allows to make
more accessible to the majority of PC users the configuration of the various
options related to the video card improving, where possible, the experience of playing with the
newer titles. And in a market where increasingly strong urge to gaming
on PC, with the desire to spread to a growing number of non-gamers
necessarily experts in hardware and software, is proposed as a Radeon Software
platform that simplifies users’ lives without compromising functionality and
performance.
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