AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta disponível para Windows e Linux
A AMD fornecedora de processadores e placas gráficas anuncia a disponibilidade do driver AMD Catalyst 14.1 beta para Windows e Linux, para os testes de Mantle nas placas gráficas da linha R7 e R9, 280X, 270X, HD 7000 and HD 8000, APU AMD A-10, codinome Kaveri.
Faça o download agora mesmo inicie os testes:
AMD Catalyst Beta para Windows: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx
AMD Catalyst Beta para Linux: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-linux-beta-driver.aspx
Abaixo informações sobre as novidades da nova versão 14.1 beta (em inglês).
Highlights of AMD Catalyst? 14.1 Beta Windows Driver
· Support for the following new AMD Desktop APU (Accelerated Processors) products:
o AMD A10-7850K
o AMD A10-7700K
· Mantle Beta driver support
o AMD?s Mantle is a groundbreaking graphics API that promises to transform the world of game development to help bring better, faster games to the PC
o Performance gains of up to 45%(versus the DirectX version) for Battlefield 4 on the R9 290 Series
o Performance gains of up to 200% (versus the DirectX version) for Star Swarm on the R9 290 Series
§ AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta must be used in conjunction with versions of these applications that support Mantle
§ It is expected that these applications will have future updates to support additional AMD Mantle features
o AMD Mantle Beta driver is currently supported on:
§ AMD Radeon? R9 Series GPUs
§ AMD Radeon? R7 Series GPUs
§ AMD Radeon? HD 7000 Series GPUs
§ AMD Radeon? HD 8000 Series GPUs
§ AMD A10-7000 Series and AMD A8-7000 Series APUs
o For additional details please see the AMD Mantle Technology FAQ on amd.com
· Enhanced AMD CrossFire frame pacing ? Support for 4K panel and Eyefinity non-XDMA CrossFire solutions (including the AMD Radeon R9 280, 270 Series, 7900 Series, 7800 Series) and Dual Graphics configurations
o Frame pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in an AMD CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace
o Supported on 4K panels and Eyefinity configurations
o Supported on AMD Dual Graphics configurations
o Supported on DirectX® 10 and DirectX 11 applications
· Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta
o Resolves ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
o Resolves flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level
o For full details on resolved issues please see the AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta release notes
· Known issue of AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta
o Mantle performance for the AMD Radeon? HD 7000/HD 8000 Series GPUs and AMD Radeon? R9 280X and R9 270X GPUs will be optimized for BattleField 4? in future AMD Catalyst? releases. These products will see limited gains in BattleField 4? and AMD is currently investigating optimizations for them.
o Multi-GPU support under DirectX® and Mantle will be added to StarSwarm in a future application patch
o Intermittent stuttering or stability issues may occur when utilizing Mantle with AMD CrossFire? technology in BattleField 4?. A future AMD Catalyst release will resolve these issues
o Notebooks based on AMD Enduro or PowerXpress? technologies are currently not supported by the Mantle code path in Battlefield 4?
- AMD Eyefinity configurations utilizing portrait display orientations are currently not supported by the Mantle code path in Battlefield 4?
- AMD Eyefinity technology is not currently supported in the StarSwarm application
- AMD testing for the AMD Catalyst? 14.1 Beta Mantle driver has been concentrated on the following products: AMD Radeon? R9 290X, R9 290, R9 280, R9 270, R7 260X, R7 260, HD 7000 Series, HD 8000 Series, A10-7850K and A10-7700K. Future AMD Catalyst? releases will include full test coverage for all AMD products supported by Mantle.
- Graphics hardware in the AMD A10-7850K and A10-7700K may override the presence of a discrete GPU under the Mantle code path in Battlefield 4?
- Frame Pacing for Dual Graphics and non-XDMA configurations above 2560×1600 do not currently work with Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4. An upcoming AMD Catalyst beta release will enable support
Dual graphics for DirectX 9 applications is not supported in AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta. An upcoming AMD Catalyst release will enable support
Highlights of AMD Catalyst? 14.1 Beta Linux Driver
- Support for the following new products:
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- AMD A10-7850K
- AMD A10-7700K
- Steam OS support
- Ubuntu 13.10 support
- RHEL 6.5 support
- Xserver 1.15 support
- Kernel 3.13 support
- OpenSUSE 13.1 support
- Resolved Issue highlights:
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- System hang on resume from S4 with OpenGL screen saver running
- Failed to start X without kernel module loaded
- OpenCL test failure in CrossFire Mode
- Viewport goes blank when mouse cursor leaves when run Houdini on Ubuntu
- piglit test “spec/ARB_framebuffer_object (fbo-scissor-blit)” failed
- Intermittent flashing problem when running at 2560×1600
- Crash when resizing Konsole
- Brightness cannot be adjusted on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Blue/white screen after using Google-chrome to run fishietank
- Screens are distorted when connecting an external monitor on some Haswell platforms
- Blank screen/crash observed while running unigine heaven benchmark in windowed mode
- Xserver crashed when enable compositing with kwin
- Installer update for SteamOS
- Steam Dota2 got hang after change resolution without restart
- Steam will crash when changing users in big picture mode on Ubuntu 12.04
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