It’s a kind of tradition for AMD to release a special edition of their graphics drivers during the Xmas month. Two years ago, AMD released the Omega Edition, last year, Crimson driver was introduced, and this year, AMD releases a ReLive edition of the Crimson graphics drivers.
Crimson ReLive 16.12.1 comes with a new installer (with clean install option, yeah!), updated version of WattMan, a new power-saving tool called Radeon Chill, as well as other features and improvements (the most important being the ReLive the new on-screen recording tool). More information can be found in the following articles:
Crimson ReLive 16.12.1 Desktop Downloads
Like Crimson 16.11.5, this Crimson ReLive supports OpenGL 4.5 with 311 OpenGL extensions (Radeon RX 470 on Win10 64-bit). But there is a slight update in the Vulkan side: Crimson ReLive supports Vulkan API 1.0.30.
Vulkan report from GPU Caps Viewer:
- Instance extensions: 3 - VK_KHR_surface (version: 25) - VK_KHR_win32_surface (version: 5) - VK_EXT_debug_report (version: 3) - Physical devices: 1 - [Device 0]: Radeon (TM) RX 470 Graphics - API version: 1.0.30 - vendorID: 4098 - deviceID: 26591 - driver version: 4210689 - extensions: 10 - VK_KHR_sampler_mirror_clamp_to_edge (version: 1) - VK_KHR_swapchain (version: 68) - VK_AMD_rasterization_order (version: 1) - VK_AMD_shader_ballot (version: 1) - VK_AMD_shader_trinary_minmax (version: 1) - VK_AMD_shader_explicit_vertex_parameter (version: 1) - VK_AMD_gcn_shader (version: 1) - VK_AMD_draw_indirect_count (version: 1) - VK_AMD_negative_viewport_height (version: 1) - VK_AMD_gpu_shader_half_float (version: 1) - device limits - maxImageDimension1D: 16384 - maxImageDimension2D: 16384 - maxImageDimension3D: 8192 - maxImageDimensionCube: 16384 - maxImageArrayLayers: 2048 - maxTexelBufferElements: 4294967295 - maxUniformBufferRange: 4294967295 - maxStorageBufferRange: 4294967295 - maxPushConstantsSize: 128 - maxMemoryAllocationCount: 4096 - maxSamplerAllocationCount: 1048576 - bufferImageGranularity: 1 - sparseAddressSpaceSize: 1099511627775 - maxBoundDescriptorSets: 32 - maxPerStageDescriptorSamplers: 4294967295 - maxPerStageDescriptorUniformBuffers: 4294967295 - maxPerStageDescriptorSampledImages: 4294967295 - maxPerStageDescriptorStorageImages: 4294967295 - maxPerStageDescriptorInputAttachments: 4294967295 - maxPerStageResources: 4294967295 - maxDescriptorSetSamplers: 4294967295 - maxDescriptorSetUniformBuffers: 4294967295 - maxDescriptorSetUniformBuffersDynamic: 8 - maxDescriptorSetStorageBuffers: 4294967295 - maxDescriptorSetStorageBuffersDynamic: 8 - maxDescriptorSetSampledImages: 4294967295 - maxDescriptorSetStorageImages: 4294967295 - maxDescriptorSetInputAttachments: 4294967295 - maxVertexInputAttributes: 4294967295 - maxVertexInputBindings: 32 - maxVertexInputAttributeOffset: 4294967295 - maxVertexInputBindingStride: 16383 - maxVertexOutputComponents: 128 - maxTessellationGenerationLevel: 64 - maxTessellationPatchSize: 32 - maxTessellationControlPerVertexInputComponents: 128 - maxTessellationControlPerVertexOutputComponents: 128 - maxTessellationControlPerPatchOutputComponents: 120 - maxTessellationControlTotalOutputComponents: 4096 - maxTessellationEvaluationInputComponents: 128 - maxTessellationEvaluationOutputComponents: 128 - maxGeometryShaderInvocations: 127 - maxGeometryInputComponents: 128 - maxGeometryOutputComponents: 128 - maxGeometryOutputVertices: 1024 - maxGeometryTotalOutputComponents: 16384 - maxFragmentInputComponents: 128 - maxFragmentOutputAttachments: 8 - maxFragmentDualSrcAttachments: 1 - maxFragmentCombinedOutputResources: 4294967295 - maxComputeSharedMemorySize: 32768 - maxComputeWorkGroupCount: [65535; 65535; 65535] - maxComputeWorkGroupInvocations: 1024 - maxComputeWorkGroupSize: [1024; 1024; 1024] - subPixelPrecisionBits: 8 - subTexelPrecisionBits: 8 - mipmapPrecisionBits: 8 - maxDrawIndexedIndexValue: 4294967295 - maxDrawIndirectCount: 4294967295 - maxSamplerLodBias: 15.996094 - maxSamplerAnisotropy: 16.000000 - maxViewports: 16 - maxViewportDimensions: [16384; 16384] - viewportBoundsRange: [-32768.000000 ; 32767.000000] - viewportSubPixelBits: 8 - minMemoryMapAlignment: 64 - minTexelBufferOffsetAlignment: 1 - minUniformBufferOffsetAlignment: 16 - minStorageBufferOffsetAlignment: 4 - minTexelOffset: 4294967232 - maxTexelOffset: 63 - minTexelGatherOffset: 4294967264 - maxTexelGatherOffset: 31 - minInterpolationOffset: -2.000000 - maxInterpolationOffset: 2.000000 - subPixelInterpolationOffsetBits: 8 - maxFramebufferWidth: 16384 - maxFramebufferHeight: 16384 - maxFramebufferLayers: 2048 - framebufferColorSampleCounts: 15 - framebufferDepthSampleCounts: 15 - framebufferStencilSampleCounts: 15 - framebufferNoAttachmentsSampleCounts: 15 - maxColorAttachments: 8 - sampledImageColorSampleCounts: 15 - sampledImageIntegerSampleCounts: 15 - sampledImageDepthSampleCounts: 15 - sampledImageStencilSampleCounts: 15 - storageImageSampleCounts: 15 - maxSampleMaskWords: 1 - timestampComputeAndGraphics: 1 - timestampPeriod: 40.000000 - maxClipDistances: 8 - maxCullDistances: 8 - maxCombinedClipAndCullDistances: 8 - discreteQueuePriorities: 2 - pointSizeRange: [0.000000 ; 8191.875000] - lineWidthRange: [0.000000 ; 8191.875000] - pointSizeGranularity: 0.125000 - lineWidthGranularity: 0.125000 - strictLines: 1 - standardSampleLocations: 1 - optimalBufferCopyOffsetAlignment: 1 - optimalBufferCopyRowPitchAlignment: 1 - nonCoherentAtomSize: 128