At the tail-end of 2014 AMD launched their Catalyst 14.12 driver set, better known as the Omega driver set. With Omega, AMD shifted their development process for the Catalyst driver set, focusing on delivering feature updates in fewer, larger updates …
At the tail-end of 2014 AMD launched their Catalyst 14.12 driver set, better known as the Omega driver set. With Omega, AMD shifted their development process for the Catalyst driver set, focusing on delivering feature updates in fewer, larger updates …
Last week AMD launched the Radeon R9 380X, the company’s latest mid-range video card. Based on a fully enabled GCN 1.2 Tonga GPU – a first for the desktop video card market – the R9 380X was timed to setup AMD product stack for the holidays and to dig out a spot in the gap between NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 960 cards. By hitting NVIDIA a bit above the ever-popular $200 spot, AMD is aiming to edge out NVIDIA on price/performance while also snagging gamers looking to upgrade from circa 2012 video cards.
Today we’ll be looking at one such card, ASUS’s STRIX R9 380X OC. Priced at $259 – $30 over AMD’s MSRP – the STRIX R9 380X OC is ASUS’s take on a premium R9 380X card, offering a very well built card and pairing it with one of the best of the R9 380X factory overclocks. To that end we’ll be looking at the performance of the STRIX at both AMD’s reference clocks and ASUS’s factory overclock to see how this card compares to the competition, and how well it fits into AMD’s holiday video card lineup.
Last week AMD launched the Radeon R9 380X, the company’s latest mid-range video card. Based on a fully enabled GCN 1.2 Tonga GPU – a first for the desktop video card market – the R9 380X was timed to setup AMD product stack for the holidays and to dig out a spot in the gap between NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 960 cards. By hitting NVIDIA a bit above the ever-popular $200 spot, AMD is aiming to edge out NVIDIA on price/performance while also snagging gamers looking to upgrade from circa 2012 video cards.
Today we’ll be looking at one such card, ASUS’s STRIX R9 380X OC. Priced at $259 – $30 over AMD’s MSRP – the STRIX R9 380X OC is ASUS’s take on a premium R9 380X card, offering a very well built card and pairing it with one of the best of the R9 380X factory overclocks. To that end we’ll be looking at the performance of the STRIX at both AMD’s reference clocks and ASUS’s factory overclock to see how this card compares to the competition, and how well it fits into AMD’s holiday video card lineup.
The season’s flurry of games has brought along a blizzard of updates. Bad pun tie-ins aside, there is little that tarnishes a shiny new game like musty old drivers, and once again NVIDIA strives to keep up with the holiday rush with another new driver release.
NVIDIA’s latest 359.00 WHQL drivers bring us game ready support for the newly released Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, which is part of their Bullets or Blades bundle that is still running. Also receiving the game ready treatment is Blizzard’s Overwatch beta that begins this Friday and will be running through this weekend. Alongside those two games the also recently released Star Wars: Battlefront is receiving some additional performance optimizations post-release.
Outside of game performance the version 359.00 WHQL driver also brings driver support for GameWorks VR 1.0 which aims to provide performance optimizations to virtual reality users. Also while there are no issue fixes for windows 10 users Windows 7 users did get an SLI profile update for Guild Wars 2.
Anyone interested can download the updated drivers through GeForce Experience or on the NVIDIA driver download page.