
The promised performance gain, accompanied by an asterisk, is over AMD's 15.7.1 Catalyst drivers. This is something that both nVidia and AMD have done in the past. Quick note: There's a good chance that, looking through our own screenshots or reading other articles, you'll see AMD's claims that Crimson introduces “up to 20% more performance” over its previous driver set. You'd ideally run this before changing your GPU (even within AMD families) and reinstalling the drivers.Ĭrimson Does Not Improve Gaming Performance Over 15.11.1 AMD's own driver cleaner will be useful for testing environments and for user device changes. We use other driver blaster tools to wipe the slate for test. Native inclusion of AMD Clean Uninstall utility which, mercifully, will now completely wipe AMD registry entries and files from the system.Significantly faster, one-click support for Eyefinity.Particularly applicable to multi-display configs. “Up to 3x faster” display initialization (AMD statistic, not validated independently) with Radeon Settings over CCC.Raptr's software is required for per-game settings profiling. Global application of game settings, without requirement of AMD Gaming Evolved (Raptr).Per-game profiling of overclocking, a feature we spent time discussing in our previous news write-up.According to AMD, 100% more automated test cases, 25% more manual test cases, and 15% more system configurations have been added for Radeon Settings over Catalyst Omega.“10x faster startup” when compared to CCC 15.7.1 (this is an AMD statistic).Targeting day-one game driver support with greater consistency than in the past.AMD now targeting 6 WHQL driver updates per year, a big move forward from the company's six-month silence from 2H14 to 1H15.
