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Radeon Vega FE comes with dual mode drivers

by on28 June 2017


Gaming and Pro modes

Now that the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is out and about, we have been getting a lot more details and it is just a matter of time before we see more benchmarks. It also appears that the Vega FE comes with a special Radeon Pro Software driver with Pro and Gaming modes, that can be switched on the fly.

According to a short video published by AMD, the Radeon Pro Software drivers for the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition have the ability to easily switch between Pro and Gaming driver mode. As the video below shows, game developers can use the Pro mode to design and import the assets into the game engine and then switch the driver to the Game mode in order to test it out.

This is a big thing for game developers as they can save on having two separate systems for designing, optimizing and testing the game in its early stages.

This also means that AMD software team will probably update and optimize the Radeon Pro Software driver so Radeon Vega Frontier Edition would provide decent gaming performance as well. 

Some early benchmarks, which are all done on a beta version driver, put the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition ahead of the Titan Xp when it comes to prosumer scenarios, like SolidWorks, Catia, Creo and Cinebench, while gaming performance is somewhere between the Geforce GTX 1080 and the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti. Hopefully, AMD will further tweak the driver which will give us a clearer picture regarding the performance of the Vega GPU, at least until the Radeon RX Vega launches later in July/August.

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Last modified on 28 June 2017
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