AMD releases Radeon Software Crimson 16.3 drivers

Plenty of new features and improvements

AMD has released its newest Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3 drivers which bring plenty of new features as well performance and stability improvements for upcoming and already available games.

The new AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3 drivers are primaraly "game ready" drivers for Square Enix's upcoming Hitman game as it features both new Crossfire profiles for the game as well as all performance and stability improvements. In addition to Hitman, the new drivers also bring updated Crossfire profile for The Park, an FPS psychological horror adventure game from Funcom.

When it comes to performance improvements, the new Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3 drivers provides up to 16 percent improvement in Rise of the Tomb Raider on Radeon Fury X series graphics cards. Apart from that there is up to 60 percent performance improvement on the Radeon Fury X and up to 44 percent on the Radeon R9 380 series graphics cards in Gears of War Ultimate Edition game.

The list of new features is quite extensive and includes Vulkan API support, per-game Display Scaling, new Language Menu for Radeon Settings, Tow Display Eyefinity feature, Crossfire Status indicator, Power Efficiency toggle and updated Social Links in Radeon Settings home page.

The most interesting new feature is support for AMD XConnect technology, which provides initial support for external GPU enclosures with Radeon R9 300 series GPUs over Thunderbolt 3 connection.

The new AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3 drivers also bring a couple of resolved issues including fixed sustained clock speeds and couple of iussues in Gears of War Ultimate Edition, XCOM 2, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Ashes of the Singularity 2.0 Benchmark.

As it was the case with previous AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition drivers, the 16.3 version also supports all graphics cards since AMD Radeon HD 7700/HD 7900 series and are available for Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

You can find the new AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3 drivers at AMD's drivers support page via link below.



Source: AMD.com.

News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini


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