AMD Catalyst Omega trae grandes mejoras a equipos AMD

AMD anunció hoy el lanzamiento de sus controladores gráficos en una edición especial llamada AMD Catalyst Omega, la cual llega con mejoras en el rendimiento y la implementación de nuevas características y tecnologías. Dichos controladores estarán disponibles para su descarga el próximo 9 de diciembre.

DSR vs VSR

Virtual Super Resolution (VSR) es la respuesta de AMD ante el Nvidia Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR).

Esta tecnología tiene algunas ventajas y algunas desventajas. Una ventaja es jugar a un juego por encima de la resolución de nuestro monitor para ofrecer una mayor calidad gráfica con un rendimiento superior ante el ahorro del uso del filtrado Anti-Aliasing.

La desventaja es que muchos juegos no están optimizados para funcionar a resoluciones altas, momento en el que solo sería posible con el uso de una gráfica de alta gama como una Radeon R9 290X o GTX 980, por lo que en ese caso es mejor jugar con sólo el AA activado.

AMD FreeSync vs Nvidia G-Sync

Se implementa la tecnología FreeSync, la variante gratuita de Nvidia G-Sync, consiguiendo así sincronizar la tasa de refresco del monitor con la GPU para evitar el temido tearing. Los primeros monitores Free-Sync llegarán a principios del próximo año (2015), ya que será necesario hacer uso la ultima versión del puerto DisplayPort.

Mejoras de Vídeo

AMD Catalyst Omega trae mejoras en lo que a la calidad de vídeo se refiere con tecnologías como Fluid Motion Video (mejora la fluidez de la imagen), Detail Enhancement (re-escala un contenido a mayor resolución sin perder calidad) y Adaptive upscaling, todas ellas explicadas en las diapositivas.

Mejora de rendimiento en GPU's y APU's

Estos drivers prometen mejorar el rendimiento de una GPU AMD Radeon en hasta un 19 por ciento o un 29% respecto a los primeros drivers que recibieron las APU.

Soporte de monitores 5K y hasta 24 monitores simultáneos

Llega el soporte a monitores con una resolución 5K (5120 x 2880p @ 60 Hz) y Eyefinity ahora es capaz de manejar hasta 24 monitores de forma simultánea.

A continuación te dejamos con el listado oficial de mejoras:

AMD FLUID MOTION VIDEO

PERFECT PICTURE ENHANCEMENTS

BETTER VIDEO QUALITY THAN MOST HIGH-END TVS

Smooth Blu-ray Playback with Lower Power APUs

High Quality Frame Rate Conversion
Interpolates frames using GPU compute
Removes Video Judder

CONTOUR REMOVAL

PERFECT PICTURE ENHANCEMENTS

AUTOMATIC VIDEO IMPROVEMENT

Improved Algorithm for Compressed Videos

Removes compression artifacts

1080P DETAIL ENHANCEMENT

PERFECT PICTURE ADDITIONS

ENHANCE YOUR ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCE

1080P Detail Enhancement now for APUs

Provides look-and-feel of 1080P video Original Video Processed Video to lower-resolution content
Improves frequency response and controllability of overshoot and noise immunity

ULTRAHD-LIKE EXPERIENCE

PERFECT PICTURE ADDITIONS

MAKE YOUR 1080P CONTENT LOOK GREAT ON ULTRA HD DISPLAYS

Makes 1080P Videos 4K-like

Combination of:
– Fluid Motion Video
– Detail Enhancement
– Adaptive upscaling

FRAME PACING ENHANCEMENTS

ENHANCED FEATURE FOR DUAL GRAPHICS

ENHANCED FOR SMOOTHER DUAL GRAPHICS GAMEPLAY

Includes enhancements for
– Batman Arkham Origins
– Metro Series
– TombRaider
– Sniper Elite 3
and many more …

NEW FEATURES: VIRTUAL SUPER RESOLUTION

UP TO 4K QUALITY GAMING ON 1080p HD DISPLAYS

Render games at higher resolution and display them at lower resolution

Smoother textures and edges
Game and Engine agnostic solution
Simulates Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing (SSAA) for games that don’t support it

ENABLED THROUGH AMD CATALYST ^TM CONTROL CENTER

Enabled through AMD Catalyst Control Center
Select higher resolution in-game settings

ALIENWARE GRAPHICS AMPLIFIER

SUPPORT FOR AMD RADEON™ GRAPHICS

AMPLIFY YOUR PERFORMANCE

Support for AMD Radeon™ Graphics in Alienware Graphics Amplifier

Expand the capability of the Alienware 13 notebook with a high-performance AMD Radeon graphics card

AMD FREESYNC TECHNOLOGY

WHAT GAMERS HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR

FREESYNC USES INDUSTRY-STANDARD DISPLAYPORT ADAPTIVE-SYNC

Eliminates screen tearing without all the usual lag and latency

Synchronizes the refresh rate of a compatible monitor to the frame rate of your content, however much it varies
Monitor partners are validating with drivers from AMD now
Monitors planned availability: Q1, 2015

5K MONITOR SUPPORT

UNPARALLELED DISPLAY PERFORMANCE FOR PROFESSIONALS AND GAMERS WHO REQUIRE THE HIGHEST RESOLUTION AVAILABLE

Silky-smooth, fatigue-free graphics

5120×2880 at 60Hz
14.7 million pixels, 218 pixels-per-inch
Dual DisplayPort 1.2 input

EYEFINITY

INTRODUCING SUPPORT FOR 24 DISPLAY EYEFINITY!

Smooth, tear free video playback with up to 24 displays (4 GPUs) on Windows®
Updated GUI for intuitive set up of Eyefinity desktop
Quick setup of overlap and blending parameters
Scale display capability in a single system configuration
No need for 3rd party hardware and software solutions

FULL LIST OF FEATURES

Compression Artifact Removal 2
Detailed Enhancement 2
Frame Rate Conversion 2.0
Virtual Super Resolution
5K x 3K Display Support
Dynamic Refresh Rate (FreeSync)
Frame Pacing for Dual Graphics
AMD CrossFire™ Frame Pacing improvements
OpenCL 2.0
Driver support for CodeXL 1.6
OGL ES3.0
Faster Display Mode Enumeration
Color Gamut Remap
VAAPI support for Phase 1 Decode
Rotated Eyefinity Support for Radeon™ R9 285
Windows Installer Updates
Windows Autodetect Software Utility
Linux® Distro Specific Packaging
Configurable UVD Sessions

AMD CrossFire™ Frame Pacing improvements

Designed to reduce stuttering from graphics memory intensive applications: Tomb Raider, Hitman Absolution, Watch Dogs, Far Cry 3

Display Mode Enumeration

Designed to improve on “Plug a display -> See thedisplay” time

OpenMP 3.1 on HSA APUs

AMD and SUSE Linux® have collaborated to create a GCC compiler allows OpenMP 3.1 applications to accelerate compute on HSA devices

Rotated Eyefinity Support for AMD Radeon™ R9 285

Enables a mix of portrait and landscape oriented displays

VAAPI support for Phase 1 Decode

Embedded product feature to enable Video Acceleration API (VAAPI) for Linux®
Enables video decoding in the AMD Catalyst™ Linux® Driver

Configurable UVD Sessions

Embedded product feature to enable up to 20 simultaneous video streams (eg. Video Surveillance showing many camera streams)

Color Gamut Remap

API to permit OEMs enablement of sRGB images on wide gamut displays for more natural colors

OpenGL ES3.0 Support

Support for Windows® and Linux®

Improvements to AMD Catalyst™ Windows Installer

Less clicks to get through an install
Installer Windows resizing to match detected display

Windows Autodetect Software Utility

Improved detection of the hardware on which the install is taking place

Linux® Distro Specific Packaging

Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution specific packages – much easier for users of those distributions to install AMD Catalyst Linux drivers

vía: Videocardz