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We recorded total system wattage while the PC was resting at idle, while watching the Star Wars The Force Awakens trailer in 1080p on YouTube, and while playing Battlefield 4 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with and without FRTC enabled. We put the power savings to the test in a number of scenarios. By limiting the frame rate in older DX9 titles, the GPU doesn't have to work as hard and saves power.
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With Radeon Software Crimson, FRTC adds support for Direct X 9 titles and a wider range of frame rates.
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In addition to the driver refinements, Frame Rate Target Control (FRTC) has been improved upon to add even more power saving benefits. The company said that everything from the R7 360 to the Fury series GPUs operate more efficiently while playing games and doing regular tasks such as watching YouTube videos. AMD said it took that user feedback seriously when designing the layout of Radeon Software Crimson.ĪMD said that Radeon Software Crimson reduces power draw in its most recent model GPUs. Easier To NavigateĪccording to AMD, the outgoing Catalyst Control Center suite was the subject of many user complaints involving the navigation of the software. Crimson launches on our system in just over half a second the first time, and in less than 0.4 seconds in subsequent launches between system reboots. With Radeon Software Crimson, the launch was so fast that it was hard to stop the timer precisely. With Catalyst 15.7.1, the launch time was routinely just over one second. We don't have a device that will start a timer and launch the application at the same time and then stop when Radeon Software Crimson has fully loaded, but we did some quick tests by pressing a stopwatch timer at the same moment as launching the application. AMD said it managed to reduce launch times to one second or less for all configurations, including the aforementioned APU. AMD said it found that Radeon Software Crimson launches twice as fast on high-end machines, and as much as 24 times faster on mobile FX 8000 series APUs.ĪMD's internal testing showed that even on the highest-end gaming rigs, the Catalyst Control Center would take upwards of one and a half seconds to start up, and it would take up to 24 seconds to launch on an FX 8800p mobile APU. The developers were able to do away with Microsoft's. The company's ambition was to have the driver suite launch in under one second on any system.ĪMD said that Radeon Software Crimson has been built from the ground up with a Qt software development framework, which makes launching the application much quicker. One of the main goals for Radeon Software Crimson was to reduce the launch time of the software to essentially nil. If you've ever used Catalyst Control Center, you already know that the software isn't exactly speedy. The installation process for Catalyst Driver 15.7.1 run from a pre-extracted installation package took one minute 42 seconds to complete, and it required multiple user interactions. We didn't record the uninstall time, but it was well under a minute, and likely less than 30 seconds. Removing the software was even faster than that. Running it this way, the software installed in 71 seconds.
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The tests that AMD recorded had a much quicker install time than that, so I uninstalled and then reinstalled the driver again using the already-extracted installation files. The installation time on our test system for Crimson was a grand total of two minutes, 32 seconds. Nevertheless, we tested out the claim for ourselves to see if there was any validity to it.
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As a graphics card reviewer who spends a fair amount of time reinstalling graphics drivers and switching back and forth between platforms, this is a welcome change to me, but I'm surprised AMD spent the time refining the process, as for most people a driver installation is a once-in-a-blue-moon type of event.
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