catalyst 15.5 logoArrivano finalmente i nuovi driver AMD Catalyst 15.5 BETA, fondamentali per risolvere le vicessitudini riguardanti le cattive prestazioni delle proprie GPU sui recenti titoli Project Cars e The Witcher 3 (maggiori info rispettivamente qui e qui). Le principarli feature di tali driver riguardano naturalmente un discreto incremento prestazionale sui titoli indicati, si parla rispettivamente di un miglioramento fino al 17% e 10% nei titoli sopra citati nel caso venga utilizzata una singola GPU R9 o R7 Series.


Per verificare quanto indicato, abbiamo prontamente eseguito una serie di test su Project Cars tra la precedente release dei driver - AMD Catalyst 15.4 BETA dedicati a GTA V - sulla nostra classica piattaforma da gioco composta da CPU AMD FX-8120 @4.2GHz, GPU AMD R9 290 4GBD5 @1000/5200MHz (Core/Mem) e 2*4GB di memoria RAM DDR3 @1600MHz.

Il test è stato eseguito sul circuito di Imola alle ore 12:00 AM, a bordo di una MCLaren MP12 GT3 contro 15 avversari aventi la medesima auto, settando la qualità grafica al massimo con MSAA attivo e risoluzione 1080p (visuale esterna), monitorando gli FPS per un giro di pista dalla partenza tramite il popolare tool FRAPS.

Effettivamente vi è un incremento prestazionale degli FPS medi registrati pari al 7% circa nel caso di meteo soleggiato, e 20% circa nel caso di forti precipitazioni.

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AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta for Windows®

This driver release is recommended for The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt and Project Cars.

The AMD Catalyst™ Software Suite, AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta contains the following:

  • AMD Catalyst™ Display Driver version 14.502.1014.1001.

Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta Windows Driver

Crossfire Profile Update for:

  • *The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt

Performance Improvements for the following:

  • The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt : Up to 10% performance increase on single GPU Radeon R9 and R7 Series graphics products
  • Project Cars - Up to 17% performance increase on single GPU Radeon R9 and R7 Series graphics products

Know Issues:

  • ​​*The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt : To enable the best performance and experience in Crossfire, users must disable Anti-Aliasing from the games video-post processing options. Some random flickering may occur when using Crossfire. If the issue is affecting the game experience, as a work around we suggest disabling Crossfire while we continue to work with CD Projekt Red to resolve this issue
  • [419945] Project CARS: Corruption may be observed if Anti-Aliasing is set to DS2M when run in Crossfire mode. As a workaround we suggest using a different Anti-Aliasing method.

The AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta is compatible with the following AMD products:

AMD Desktop Product Family Compatibility ​

  • AMD Radeon™ R9 290 Series | AMD Radeon™ R5 230 Series
  • AMD Radeon™ R9 280 Series | AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series
  • AMD Radeon™ R9 270 Series | AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series
  • AMD Radeon™ R7 260 Series | AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 Series
  • AMD Radeon™ R7 250 Series | ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
  • AMD Radeon™ R7 240 Series

AMD All-In-One Desktop Product Family Compatibility ​

  • AMD Radeon™ HD 7600A Series AMD Radeon™ HD 6600A Series
  • AMD Radeon™ HD 7450A Series AMD Radeon™ HD 6350A Series

AMD APU Product Family Compatibility ​

  • A-Series AMD Radeon™ R7 Graphics | AMD Radeon™ HD 8000G Series
  • A-Series AMD Radeon™ R6 Graphics | AMD Radeon™ HD 7000G Series
  • A-Series AMD Radeon™ R5 Graphics | AMD Radeon™ HD 6000G Series
  • A-Series AMD Radeon™ R3 Graphics
  • AMD Radeon™ HD 8000D Series
  • AMD Radeon™ HD 7000D Series
  • AMD Radeon™ HD 6000D Series

* Windows 8.1 32-bit with Kaveri APU is currently not supported by AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta driver.

AMD Mobility Product Family Compatibility ​

  • AMD Radeon™ R9 M200 Series | AMD Radeon™ HD 7000M Series
  • AMD Radeon™ R7 M200 Series | AMD Radeon™ HD 6000M Series
  • AMD Radeon™ R5 M200 Series | ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
  • AMD Radeon™ HD 8000M Series