Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta Driver for Windows

• Performance improvements
• Watch Dogs performance improvements
• AMD Radeon R9 290X - 1920x1080 4x MSAA – improves up to 25%
• AMD Radeon R9290X - 2560x1600 4x MSAA – improves up to  28%
• AMD Radeon R9290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra settings, MSAA = 4X)  - 92% scaling
• Murdered Soul Suspect performance improvements
• AMD Radeon R9 290X – 2560x1600 4x MSAA – improves up to 16%
• AMD Radeon R9290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra settings, MSAA = 4X)  - 93% scaling
• AMD Eyefinity enhancements:
• Mixed Resolution Support
• A new architecture providing brand new capabilities
• Display groups can be created with monitors of different resolution  (including difference sizes and shapes)
• Users have a choice of how surface is created over the display group
1. Fill – legacy mode, best for identical monitors
2. Fit – create the Eyefinity surface using best available rectangular area with attached displays.
3. Expand – create a virtual Eyefinity surface using desktops as viewports onto the surface.
• Eyefinity Display Alignment
• Enables control over alignment between adjacent monitors
• One-Click Setup
• Driver detects layout of extended desktops
1. Can create Eyefinity display group using this layout in one click!
• New user controls for video color and display settings
• Greater control over Video Color Management:
• Controls have been expanded from a single slider for controlling Boost and Hue to per color axis
• Color depth control for Digital Flat Panels (available on supported HDMI and DP displays)
• Allows users to select different color depths per resolution and display
• AMD Mantle enhancements
• Mantle now supports AMD Mobile products with Enduro technology
• Battlefield 4:  AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1366x768; high settings) – 21% gain
• Thief: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920x1080; high settings) – 14% gain
• Star Swarm:  AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920x1080; medium settings) – 274% gain
• Enables support for Multi-GPU configurations with Thief (requires the latest Thief update)
• AMD AM1 JPEG decoding acceleration
• JPEG decoding acceleration was first enabled on the A10 APU Series in AMD Catalyst 14.1 beta, and has now been extended to the AMD AM1 Platform
• Provides fast JPEG decompression
• Provides Power Efficiency for JPEG decompression

Known Issues 

• Running Watch Dogs with a R9 280X CrossFire configuration may result in the application running in CrossFire software compositing mode
• Enabling Temporal SMAA in the AMD Catalyst Control center under a CrossFire configuration when playing Watch Dogs will result in Flickering
• AMD CrossFire configurations with Eyefinity enabled will see application stability with BattleField 4 or Thief when running Mantle
• Catalyst Install Manager text is covered by Express/Custom radio button text
• Express Uninstall does not remove C:\Program Files\(AMD or ATI) folder