Conclusion
AMD's Omega release fuses together notable performance increases on current gaming titles with welcomed new features that are available to many of AMD's current APU and GPU line-up. Cutting through the intensely PR-laden materials it's clear that the Omega driver does add functionality to AMD's Catalyst driver package, particularly in the realm of display functionality, but also with regards to content consumption and media playback.
The Virtual Super Resolution (VSR) feature will be welcomed by AMD graphics-card owners who have, up until now, looked on in green envy at Nvidia's equivalent Dynamic Super Resolution, available for nearly three months now. At present, VSR will only be available for the Radeon R9 295X2, R9 290X, R9 290 and R9 285 GPUs thus leaving owners of older HD 7000 cards, or their rebranded Rx 2xx series counterparts, without access to the new feature. For reference, Nvidia recently released a driver update that facilitates DSR support on all Fermi and Kepler-based GPUs.
A further noteworthy point from AMD's Omega release is the feedback mechanism AMD has deployed. Omega fixes the ten most-requested bug-fixes from AMD's community users, something we look forward to AMD doing more of with future driver releases.
AMD says that Omega is the first step in a general overhaul of its software support with more driver goodness coming at regular intervals in 2015. Only time will tell if AMD's bullish claims are borne out. The Catalyst 14.501 driver can be downloaded here. Got a high-end Radeon card? Give Omega a go and see if you can replicate our results.
