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As AMD is now well into their third generation of RDNA architecture GPUs, the sun has been slowly setting on AMD’s remaining Graphics Core Next (GCN) designs, better known by the architecture names of Polaris and Vega. In recent weeks the company dropped support for those GPU architectures in their open source Vulkan Linux driver, AMDVLK, and now we have confirmation that the company is slowly winding down support for these architectures in their Windows drivers as well. Under AMD’s extended driver support schedule for Polaris and Vega, the drivers for these architectures will no longer be kept at feature parity with the RDNA architectures. And while AMD will continue to support Polaris and Vega for some time to come, that support is being reduced...
AMD Moves Radeon HD 5000 & 6000 Series to Legacy Status - All Pre-Graphics Core Next GPUs Now Retired
Alongside today’s release of the new Radeon Software Crimson Edition driver set, AMD has published a new page on their driver site announcing that video cards based on the...
68 by Ryan Smith on 11/24/2015
AMD's Radeon Software Crimson Driver Released: New Features & A New Look
At the tail-end of 2014 AMD launched their Catalyst 14.12 driver set, better known as the Omega driver set. With Omega, AMD shifted their development process for the Catalyst...
146 by Ryan Smith & Daniel Williams on 11/24/2015
NVIDIA Releases 359.00 WHQL Game Ready Driver
The season's flurry of games has brought along a blizzard of updates. Bad pun tie-ins aside, there is little that tarnishes a shiny new game like musty old drivers...
26 by Daniel Williams on 11/19/2015
AMD Releases Catalyst 15.11.1 Beta Drivers
With AMD continuing to deliver beta driver updates left and right lately, today they come to us with another update. Another one of AMD’s point driver updates, Catalyst 15.11.1...
19 by Daniel Williams on 11/17/2015
AMD Announces Radeon Crimson Driver Branding & New Settings Control Panel
It was just under two months ago that AMD announced the major restructuring of their graphics division, which would see the graphics division made whole once again, more than...
88 by Ryan Smith on 11/2/2015
AMD Releases Catalyst 15.10 Beta Drivers
In a manner that appears it may be building momentum, AMD has released another new driver update. As this is a point driver release the changes aren't immense, but...
45 by Daniel Williams on 10/14/2015
NVIDIA Releases 358.50 Game Ready Drivers For Star Wars Battlefront
Due for wide release tomorrow is the Star Wars Battlefront Beta, a technical test for the game being run ahead of the game's full launch in November. As is...
20 by Ryan Smith on 10/7/2015
AMD Releases Catalyst 15.9.1 Beta Drivers
In a rare episode for AMD we get to see a second beta driver release in the same week. Earlier this week (Tuesday September 29th) AMD had released their...
11 by Daniel Williams on 10/2/2015
Update: AMD Releases Catalyst 15.9 Beta Drivers
Today AMD has released AMD Catalyst 15.9 Beta as their latest driver update, with display driver version 15.201.1151. This driver provides optimizations for the upcoming Star Wars: Battlefront Beta...
28 by Daniel Williams on 9/29/2015
NVIDIA Releases 355.98 Game Ready WHQL Drivers
NVIDIA has recently announced the launch of its latest WHQL driver set - 355.98. This update brings to the table the game ready drivers for Killing Floor 2, an...
41 by Daniel Williams on 9/23/2015
NVIDIA Releases 355.60 Drivers; GameWorks VR Now In Beta
As the week starts to wind down NVIDIA is back with another driver release, 335.60. This latest release is notable for a few different reasons. Officially NVIDIA is releasing this...
18 by Ryan Smith on 8/13/2015
AMD Releases Catalyst 15.7 WHQL Drivers: Crossfire Freesync, Win10 Support, & More
After a brief detour for AMD’s driver team where they diverged their drivers for the Radeon 300 series and R9 Fury X launch, AMD has reunified their drivers with...
68 by Ryan Smith on 7/8/2015
AMD Releases Catalyst 15.5 Beta Drivers
AMD has pushed out another Catalyst beta driver update this afternoon, bringing their latest drivers up to Catalyst 15.5 beta. The release notes for this driver indicate that it’s...
18 by Ryan Smith on 5/28/2015
NVIDIA Releases 352.84 Drivers - First WHQL Win10 Driver Set
Up to recently, all Windows 10 video drivers have been distributed through Windows Update. With the OS still under active development and this specific version of Windows including the...
8 by Ryan Smith on 5/18/2015
NVIDIA Releases 352.86 Game Ready WHQL Drivers For The Witcher 3
With the highly anticipated The Witcher 3 being released today, NVIDIA has pushed out their requisite launch day Game Ready driver for the game with the release of driver...
28 by Ryan Smith on 5/18/2015
AMD Releases Catalyst 15.4 Beta Drivers
In a busy day for video card drivers ahead of the Grand Theft Auto V launch, AMD has also released an updated driver set in preparation for release of...
21 by Ryan Smith on 4/13/2015
NVIDIA Releases 350.12 Game Ready WHQL Drivers
Hot on the heels of their first R349 branch driver release earlier this month with the release of the 350.05 hotfix drivers, NVIDIA is back again with another R349...
25 by Ryan Smith on 4/13/2015
NVIDIA Posts 350.05 Hotfix Driver - Fixes Games & Adds OpenCL 1.2 Support
Not too long after a driver release to coincide with the launch of the GTX Titan X, NVIDIA is back again with a hotfix driver release, version 350.05. Like...
10 by Ryan Smith on 4/3/2015
NVIDIA 347.09 Beta Drivers Available
After the last 344.75 NVIDIA driver update, I thought maybe we might not get any more updates until the New Year. Certainly I wasn't expecting to move from the...
15 by Jarred Walton on 12/19/2014
NVIDIA 344.75 Drivers - MFAA Arrives for Maxwell
When NVIDIA initially briefed us on their new GM204 GPUs (aka Maxwell 2.0), there were several new features discussed. Most of these are now publicly available – Dynamic Scalable...
28 by Jarred Walton on 11/18/2014
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