Performance Testing

Performance Testing

So we'll go through our software benchmark suite. We'll test the Radeon R9 380X at the usual resolutions and settings. I am not going to explain all quality settings, again these are similar to our reviews. overall as such they are the highest quality settings with some sort of AA enabled. On this last past I wanted to show three synthetics tests in the form of 3DMark 11 / 3DMark FireStrike and the DirectX 12 title Ashes of Singularity:

Both 3DMark titles show minor perf increasements. These remain extremely marginal though.

In the Synthetic DX12 test of Ashes we see no perf differences whatsoever.

Concluding

Crimson offers many new features, it is faster and more responsive and is the much needed overhaul for AMDs driver. Performance wise do not expect miracles. It looks like most optimizations for a handful of newer titles have been inserted into Crimson and not the latest 15.11.1 Beta driver. As such Crimson will only offer performance increments for titles like GTA-V, Fallout 4 and we expect the latest COD and Star Wars: Battlefront. If you look at the absolute average FPS we can measure at best roughly 3% performance increases on such new titles. But it's another good step upwards with a driver that we like very much. AMD has also indicated that frame latency enhancements for DX9 now have been enabled. So for the DX9 FPS gamers that is good news.

Many end-users already have reported that some stuttering in games like GTA-V and the Witcher III feels a lot better and more smooth. It might be a bit of a placebo effect, but regardless we see absolutely no reason for you guys to not upgrade to the new driver. This release has green lights all over my fellow gurus, well shades or red I should say eh ? :)

Cheers,

- Hilbert