AMD Crimson improved performance in every test

I know that WCCFTech isn't well liked around here, but that doesn't matter. What matters is the results. I have yet to see a different site test this, so here we go. I think that this is great. I was expecting Crimson to just be an overhaul of the UI, not an actual improvement of the drivers. Turns out I was wrong. Would love to see more benchmarks comparing with more gpus (need to have the competition for reference).

http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-software-performance-analysis-is-this-the-crimson-tide/

this looks like a 2-ish% increase. I'm curious of Overclocking benchmarks.

fury gained most on it, in some cases over 20fps (black ops stuff)

Well I was looking forward into Shader Cache, but then I saw leaked pics having also low framerate improvements for FreeSync. I've been asking something like that from both AMD forum and Twitter, but I can't test it right now. Playing Battlefront which is running extremely well, and Witcher 3 is waiting for Super Turbo Lightning Mod.

Really surprising myself by actually saying this, but I've become less interested about fps with recent games as the frames can be extremely choppy. That improvement could be if that Shader Cache kills those spikes, which is like 5fps~ on average?

CrossFire could be much more enjoyable right now, but I just switched from 290's to Fury. :D

Crossfire is not supported right now in Crimson

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AMD seems to really start to pay attention to drivers and stuff...
I am curious for a comparison today with Nvidia for each pricepoint...

Nvidia's drivers have been poor in terms of quality since the release of Windows 10, while AMD's have gotten better and better.

AMD u wot m8.


1600x900 (blue), 1920x1080 (red), 2560x1440 (green) and 3840x2160 (purple).
Interesting... Even Techpowerup says the Crimson software is really nice improvement over CCC... May be it's finally time to move away from 2014's Omega...

If you're still on that very old driver, you will probably notice some significant improvements. The 15.11.1 driver did shape up some stuff for me in Fallout 4 for example. Compared to a year old driver the difference will be kinda huge.

https://forum.teksyndicate.com/t/amd-crimsom/91982/38

No kidding it's time to update.

Meanwhile during tests, the advertised performance gain of Crimson drivers under Linux

is non existant and in some cases Crimson shows performance regression.

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Seems pretty obvious to me that those gains are only possible on the latest cards, Fury and Fury X. Those cards had terrible perf on linux previously, huge gains is certainly possible.

No they are fine when it comes to analysis not when it comes to leaks

I heard they are giving each update a new name using a different shade of red. Interesting to see how many they can come up with.

So salty right now! the oldest generation of mobile GPU that works with this update is the 7700M series. I've got a 7670M in my laptop...