From PC World: It’s the end of an era. Catalyst Control Center, Radeon’s software hub since the ol’ ATI days, is finally being laid to rest by AMD’s newly founded Radeon Technologies Group.
But don’t shed tears over the loss! Catalyst’s been ho-hum, drab, and overly complicated for years now. Rising from its ashes is Radeon Software Crimson, spearheaded by the new Radeon Settings interface—a seriously slick piece of software ready to go toe-to-toe with Nvidia’s vaunted GeForce Experience, buoyed by interesting new features like per-game overclocking and one-click Eyefinity configuration.
“Software is the first thing people see on their screen, the first part of their experience,” says AMD’s Sasa Marinkovic. With Crimson, Marinkovic added, Radeon’s “software is as equally represented as the hardware.”
Radeon Settings is nothing short of a complete reimagining of AMD’s software, rebuilt using the Qt software architecture and designed with a focus on speed, simplicity, and intuitiveness. Those goals certainly appear to have been achieved—AMD says Radeon Settings opens in 0.6 seconds versus Catalyst’s 8 seconds on an E-350 APU-based Windows 10 system. Alas, AMD didn’t provide journalists with a beta build of the software, as it won’t be ready until sometime before the holidays, so I can’t speak to it firsthand.
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