AMD’S new High performance “Radeon Crimson” Graphic Interface

This year’s software release marks a new era for AMD as it introduces its new Radeon Software Crimson Edition, it’s revolutionary new graphics software. Delivering a redesigned user interface, supercharged graphics performance, remarkable new features, and innovation that redefine the overall user experience at no additional charge. The new edition is a performance driven design with user oriented functionality.

The new streamlined user interface gets an updated name: “AMD Catalyst™ Control Center” is now “Radeon Settings”. Architected to enable the best from AMD graphics hardware, user-friendly Radeon Settings is lightning fast, looks sharp, works smoothly, and delivers intuitive functionality that requires less effort and fewer mouse clicks than its predecessor.

Radeon Software Crimson Edition ventures beyond the realm of traditional graphics driver software to deliver extraordinary performance and precise control of graphics, video, displays, and forward-thinking power efficiency from the latest AMD technologies and advances:

• Fast high-speed game loading with Shader Cache.
• Optimized Flip Queue Size providing users with the very latest keyboard while gaming
• Smoother gaming enhancements enabled on DirectX 9 games
• 1080p media content scaled to 4K using adaptive directional filtering technology
• Fine-tuned Dynamic Contrast algorithm.
• Enhanced Video quality settings for 6th Generation A-Series AMD APUs
• Display Port to HDMI 2.0 dongle support
• Customizable display settings with fine tuning for resolutions, timings, and refresh rates
• AMD FreeSync technology enhancements including AMD CrossFire support for DirectX 9 games
• Incredible power efficiency for select products and applications through power optimizations

Radeon Software Crimson Edition is the first publically available driver that enables all LiquidVR features, which are currently being validated and tested by VR headset manufacturers and ecosystem partners.