Like NVIDIA yesterday, AMD has released a new version of Crimson, the graphics driver for all Radeon GPUs. Crimson 16.3.2 comes with the following changes:
Support for:
– Oculus Rift SDK v1.3
– HTC ViveUpdated Crossfire Profiles available for:
– Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
– Hitman
Crimson 16.3.2 Desktop Downloads
Crimson 16.3.2 Notebook Downloads
AMD Crimson 16.3.2 brings the same OpenGL 4.5 level than Crimson 15.12.
For Vulkan API here is the report from VK-Z for a Radeon HD 8500M (see this notebook) on Windows 10 64-bit:
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VK-Z 0.2.0
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Vulkan capabilities and extensions viewer
(C)2016 Geeks3D – http://www.geeks3d.com/vkz/Instance extensions: 4
– 1/ VK_KHR_swapchain (spec version: 0.0.67)
– 2/ VK_KHR_surface (spec version: 0.0.25)
– 3/ VK_KHR_win32_surface (spec version: 0.0.5)
– 4/ VK_EXT_debug_report (spec version: 0.0.1)# Vulkan devices: 1
[ Device 1 ]————————————–
– Device name: AMD Radeon (TM) HD 8500M/8700M
– DeviceID: 1002-6601
– Raw driver version: 36864
– Vulkan API version: 1.0.3
– Device type: VK_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_DISCRETE_GPU
– Memory heap count: 3
heap 0 – size: 768 MB
heap 1 – size: 256 MB
heap 2 – size: 1734 MB
– Device extensions: 1
1/ VK_KHR_swapchain (spec version: 0.0.67)
– 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: 68719476735
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: 64
maxFragmentOutputAttachments: 8
maxFragmentDualSrcAttachments: 1
maxFragmentCombinedOutputResources: 4294967295
maxComputeSharedMemorySize: 32768
maxComputeWorkGroupCount: [65535; 65535; 65535]
maxComputeWorkGroupInvocations: 256
maxComputeWorkGroupSize: [256; 256; 256]
subPixelPrecisionBits: 8
subTexelPrecisionBits: 8
mipmapPrecisionBits: 8
maxDrawIndexedIndexValue: 4294967295
maxDrawIndirectCount: 4294967295
maxSamplerLodBias: 15.996094
maxSamplerAnisotropy: 16.000000
maxViewports: 16
maxViewportDimensions: [16384; 16384]
viewportBoundsRange: [-16384.000000 ; 16383.000000]
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: 37.037037
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: 0
standardSampleLocations: 1
optimalBufferCopyOffsetAlignment: 1
optimalBufferCopyRowPitchAlignment: 1
nonCoherentAtomSize: 128