AMD's Year End Gift to Gamers is Catalyst Omega, a Special Edition Driver

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Performance improvements and bug fixes galore

Between the holiday sales and promotions that have been going on lately, your wallet or purse is probably significantly lighter than it was a month ago. Hey, tis the season for spending, right? Or perhaps it's giving, which the mood AMD is in these days. Closing out the year in style, AMD just released its Catalyst Omega special edition driver, which it describes as the biggest and best software upgrade it's released this year.
"It's our of way of saying 'Thank you' and Happy Holidays," AMD stated in a blog post, though it's much more than that. Catalyst Omega represents a new era in driver design for AMD, one what will see major updates overflowing with new features, performance enhancements, and bug fixes, in addition to the regularly scheduled releases that are usually game-specific in optimizations. In a way, it's sort of like rival Intel's tick-tock schedule for CPUs, though instead of die shrinks and architecture changes, AMD's minor and major Catalyst releases will feature enhancements and feature-packed upgrades.
In this particular case, installing the special edition Catalyst Omega driver will introduce featuers like 5K (5120x2880 at 60Hz) monitor support; Virtual Super Resolution (VSR), which renders games at a higher resolution and then displays them at a lower resolution with the supposed intent of delivering 4K-like visuals on a 1080p monitor; support for Alienware's Graphics Amplifier; Frame Pacing enhancements for dual-graphics setups; and lots more.

All tallied, there are over 20 new features and 400 bug fixes included in Catalyst Omega, plus a bunch of performance improvements. To give an example of the latter, AMD says Radeon R9 290X graphics card owners who install the special edition driver will see up to 19 percent faster gameplay in BioShock Infinite. Likewise, the driver boosts performance for A10 7850K APU owners by up to 29 percent in Batman: Arkham Origins.
You can read more of what AMD had to say in its blog post, and if you're sold, you can download Catalyst Omega here.
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