Ya puedes descargar los nuevos controladores gráficos AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta, controladores tal como los anunciamos días atras, traen mejoras de rendimiento de hasta un 28% para Watch Dogs y Murdered Soul Suspect, siempre y cuando tengas una AMD Radeon R9 290X.
El resto de mejoras destacas las encontramos con la resolución mixta en AMD Eyefinity, soporte Mantle para Battlefield 4, Thief y Star Swarm en equipos portátiles AMD con la tecnología AMD Enduro, y la aceleración de decodificación JPEG en la plataforma AM1. Puedes acceder a su descarga desde el siguiente enlace.
Performance improvements
- Watch Dogs performance improvements
AMD Radeon R9 290X – 1920×1080 4x MSAA – improves up to 25%
AMD Radeon R9290X – 2560×1600 4x MSAA – improves up to 28%
AMD Radeon R9290X CrossFire configuration (3840×2160 Ultra settings, MSAA = 4X) – 92% scaling - Murdered Soul Suspect performance improvements
AMD Radeon R9 290X – 2560×1600 4x MSAA – improves up to 16%
AMD Radeon R9290X CrossFire configuration (3840×2160 Ultra settings, MSAA = 4X) – 93% scaling
AMD Eyefinity enhancements
- 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 technology
- 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
- Enables support for Multi-GPU configurations with Thief (requires the latest Thief update)
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
