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AMD today released the Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.6.1, just in time for two of the month’s big game releases. The drivers come with optimizations for “Mirrors Edge: Catalyst” and “Paragon.” The drivers also add CrossFire profiles for “Dark Souls III.” The drivers address more instances of flickering noticed on CrossFire machines playing “Fallout 4,” and performance drops in “DiRT Rally” in tracks with night/rainy settings.

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson Edition version 16.6.1 drivers here.

Reviews of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition have hit the web. The GTX 1070 is NVIDIA’s second video card in the Pascal lineup based on the new Pascal architecture. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition has not been released to the retail market yet, its launch coming on June 10th, but a number of websites have received copies of the new card for reviews and we have provided links to those sites below.

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NVIDIA posted its first official driver for the GeForce GTX 1080, ahead of its retail availability from tomorrow (27/05). The new GeForce 368.25 WHQL appears to have the same feature-set and change-log as the GeForce 368.22 WHQL posted earlier this week, with the notable exception of supporting just the GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card. It should come handy for some of the earliest adopters of the retail GTX 1080 cards.

You can download the new GeForce 368.25 WHQL drivers from GeForce Experience and GeForce.com.

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NVIDIA released its GeForce 368.22 WHQL drivers. These drivers are Game Ready for “Overwatch,” “World of Tanks,” and “War Thunder.” This includes performance optimization, SLI support (for games that support multi-GPU), and GeForce Experience optimal settings. These drivers also address a stuttering issue noticed with “Tom Clancy’s The Division,” after 20-30 minutes of gameplay, on SLI machines.

You can download the new GeForce 368.22 WHQL drivers from GeForce Experience and GeForce.com.

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AMD released its encouraging fourth update to Radeon Software Crimson Edition for this month, with version 16.5.3 beta. The new drivers come with optimization for three games – “Overwatch,” “Total War: Warhammer,” and “Dota 2″ with Vulkan API. The drivers also add CrossFireX profiles for “Overwatch” and “Total War: Warhammer.” The drivers address a micro-stutter issue affecting CrossFire machines on “Fallout 4.”

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson Edition version 16.5.3 drivers here.

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AMD today released its third Radeon Software Crimson Edition update for this month. Version 16.5.2.1 provides a massive 35 percent performance increase for Radeon R9 390 series graphics cards (R9 390, R9 390X) on “Doom” (2016), compared to version 16.5.2, released earlier this month. The change-log does not mention whether this is also applicable to the nearly identical Radeon R9 290 series (R9 290, R9 290X, and R9 295X2). Not much else has changed, which explains the version numbering.

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson Edition version 16.5.2.1 drivers here.

Reviews of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition have hit the web. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition is the first gaming GPU based on the company’s new Pascal™ architecture — providing up to 2x more performance in virtual reality compared to the GeForce GTX TITAN X. Pascal offers massive leaps in performance, memory bandwidth and power efficiency over its predecessor, the high-performance Maxwell™ architecture. And it introduces groundbreaking graphics features and technologies that redefine the PC as the ultimate platform for playing AAA games and enjoying virtual reality.  We have collected a large number of reviews and we’ve posted the links to them below for your convenience.

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NVIDIA released its latest GeForce “Game Ready” drivers. Version 365.19 WHQL comes with optimization for “Doom” (2016), “Homefront: The Revolution,” and “Master of Orion.” This includes optimization, SLI profiles (if the game engine supports it), and GeForce Experience optimal settings. This is perhaps the last driver release before NVIDIA GeForce 10 Series.

You can download the new GeForce 365.19 WHQL drivers from GeForce Experience and GeForce.com.

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AMD posted its second Radeon Software Crimson Edition release for this month, version 16.5.2 Beta. The drivers add optimization for “DOOM” (2016), the season’s hottest shooter and a revival of the epic FPS franchise. The drivers also add CrossFire profiles for “Battleborn,” letting it take advantage of multiple GPUs, and dual-GPU graphics cards, such as the Radeon Pro Duo. The drivers also fix texture corruption issues in “Star Wars: Battlefront,” and “League of Legends” in CrossFire mode.

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson Edition version 16.5.2 drivers here.

Powered by Pascal Architecture, Delivers up to 2x Performance and 3X Efficiency of GeForce GTX TITAN X - NVIDIA also announced Ansel, a powerful game capture tool.

NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1080 — the first gaming GPU based on the company’s new Pascal™ architecture — providing up to 2x more performance in virtual reality compared to the GeForce GTX TITAN X. Pascal offers massive leaps in performance, memory bandwidth and power efficiency over its predecessor, the high-performance Maxwell™ architecture. And it introduces groundbreaking graphics features and technologies that redefine the PC as the ultimate platform for playing AAA games and enjoying virtual reality.

“The PC is the world’s favorite gaming platform, and our new Pascal GPU architecture will take it to new heights,” said Jeff Fisher, senior vice president of NVIDIA’s PC business. “Our first Pascal gaming GPU, the GeForce GTX 1080, enables incredible realism in gaming and deeply immersive VR experiences, with dramatically improved performance and efficiency. It’s the most powerful gaming GPU ever built, and some of our finest work.”

NVIDIA also announced Ansel, a powerful game capture tool that allows gamers to explore, capture and share the artistry of gaming in ways never before possible. With Ansel, gamers can compose the gameplay shots they want, pointing the camera in any direction and from any vantage point within a gaming world. They can capture screenshots at up to 32x screen resolution, and then zoom in where they choose without losing fidelity. With photo-filters, they can add effects in real time before taking the perfect shot. And they can capture 360-degree stereo photospheres for viewing in a VR headset or Google Cardboard.

Learn more about the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 here.