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This week, AMD announced a massive change to how it is handling its GPU drivers. The red team announced that the Radeon Technologies Group would be doing away with the Catalyst Control Centre entirely, putting drivers under a new banner: ‘Radeon Software: Crimson Edition'. The new drivers will feature an entirely new design and additional features.
At the time of announcement, a release date wasn't revealed but rumour claims that it won't be far away at all, with signs currently pointing to the 24th of November.
This is all coming from an anonymous source speaking with foreign site, Zolkorn. The site claims it got this release date from a credible source but could not name them, so much like last night's Zen news, take is all with a pinch of salt. If any of you missed our earlier article on Radeon Software: Crimson Edition, you can catch most of the information, HERE.
However, in short, Catalyst is dead. From now on, AMD will release six WHQL certified drivers per year and there will be one special edition launch each year, so last year we got Omega, this year we're getting Crimson and next year there will be another one under a new name.
KitGuru Says: The source is anonymous so treat this release date as rumour or speculation for now. However, given that AMD just announced its new drivers, it would make sense for it to follow up with a release fairly quickly. Did any of you catch the Radeon Software announcement earlier this week? Are you happy about the changes?
come on AMD, I’m holding my purchase of GTX 970 hoping your next gen GPU’s will give Nvidia a run for their money, been a AMD GFX card owner ever since and dont wanna change now.
No need to wait for ”next gen”, R9 390 already kills the GTX 970.
True that, but I have doubts whether my 550w psu would be able to run it or not. Not ready to bottle neck it. If the rumours are true, the next gen will be 2x efficient.
Have you done research yet?
R9 390X is thrashing the GTX 980 in FPS tests on DirectX 12, this means that if we put the cards against eachother again like the 770 vs 280X and all the old showdowns I’m pretty sure AMD is ahead in most battles now just because of how good Dx12 works with AMD….something to consider..i’m sitting here wanting Nvidia Pascal cards =P
I’m running 2 R9 290 Tri-X on 650 watts PSU for 2 years and it’s is find.
So 1 R9 390 or R9 390X is nothing on 550 Watts.
the 550W PSU battles to run on my HD 7970
How the hell will it be able to run something that is almost 3x more powerful? =D
A buddy of mine also has the HD 7970, he had to upgrade from 550W to 700W, cost him $90 or so, CoolerMaster B series 700W PSU, working 100%…
Also for you and ALB
The R9 390 beats the GTX 980 as well..
Holy fuck the amount of tech illiteracy here is giving me brain damage. AMD MASSIVELY overstates the PSU requirements to account for people using shit non-80+ PSUs. If it is a good brand (superflower, seasonic, ect) you shouldn’t have any trouble with a i5 and a 290x on a 450watt PSU.
So the PSU quality is what actually determines if the card will run on it.