What's new in the Catalyst 13.11 Beta 9.5 Drivers:

  • Includes all Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta9.4 Driver
  • Resolves the issue of AMD Overdrive missing in the AMD Catalyst Control Center for the AMD Radeon R9 290 Series graphics cards
  • Resolves intermittent flickering seen on some AMD Radeon R9 270x graphics cards
  • Resolves graphics corruption seen in Starcraft
  • Improves frame pacing r​esults in AMD Quad CrossFire configurations for the following: Hitman: Absolution, and Total War™​: Rome 2

What's new in the Catalyst 13.11 Beta9.4 Drivers:

  • Includes all Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta9.2 Driver
  • May resolve intermittent black screens or display loss observed on some AMD Radeon R9 290X and AMD Radeon R9 290 graphics cards
  • Improves AMD CrossFire scaling in the multi-player portion of Call of Duty: Ghosts
  • AMD Enduro Technology Profile updates:
  • ​XCOM:​ Enemy Unknown
  • Need for Speed Rivals

What's New in Beta 9.2:

  • Call of Duty: Ghost - Improves anti-aliasing performance, and updates the AMD CrossFire profile
  • AMD Radeon R9 290 Series - PowerTune update to reduce variance of fan speed / RPM
  • Resolves intermittent crashes seen in legacy DirectX®​ 9 applications
  • DirectX 11.2 - Tier 1 Tiled Resources now supported on the following products:
    • ​AMD Radeon R9 280X
    • AMD Rad​eon R9 270X
    • AMD Radeon R7 250
    • AMD Radeon R7 240
    • AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
    • AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
    • AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series

What's New in Beta 8:

  • ​​Includes all Feature Highlights in previous versions
  • Resolves intermittent crashes experienced with Battlefield 4 on Windows 8 based systems

What's new in previous versions:

  • Increases AMD CrossFire​​ scaling up to an additional 20% for Battlefield 4
  • Includes all Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta 6
  • Includes support for the new prod​ucts:
    • AMD Radeon​ R9 290X
    • AMD Radeon R9 290
  • ​Performance improvements
    • ​Batman: Arkham Origins improves performance up to 35% with MSAA 8x enabled
    • Total War: Rome 2 improves performance up to 10%
    • Battlefield 3 improves performance up to 10%
    • GRID 2 improves performance up to 8.5%
    • DiRT Showdown improves performance up to 10%
    • Formula 1 2013 improves performance up to 8%
    • DiRT 3 improves performance up to 7%
    • Sleeping Dogs improves performance up to 5%
  • ​Automatic AMD Eyefinity Configuration​
  • Automatic "plug and play" configuration of supported Ultra HD/4K tiled displays

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta Driver for Windows

  • ​Includes support for the new products:​
    • AMD Radeon R9 280X
    • AMD Radeon R9 270X
    • AMD Radeon R7 260X
    • AMD Radeon R7 250
    • AMD Radeon R7 240
  • Performance improvements for the AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series in the following games:
    • ​Total War: Rome 2 improves performance up to 10%
    • Splinter Cell® Blacklist improves performance up to 7% on single GPU and AMD CrossFire configurations
    • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim® improves performance up to 9%

Supported Products:

AMD Radeon Product Family Compatibility

  • AMD Accelerated Processor (APU) Desktop Product Family
    • AMD A10 Series APU
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 8000D Series
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 7000D Series
    • AMD A8 Series APU
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 8000D Series
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 7000D Series
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 6000D Series
    • AMD A6 Series APU
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 8000D Series
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 7000D Series
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 6000D Series
    • AMD A4 Series APU
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 8000D Series
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 7000D Series
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 6000D Series
    • AMD E2-3000 APU (AMD Radeon HD 8280)
    • AMD E1-2500 APU (AMD Radeon HD 8240)
    • AMD E2-2000 APU (AMD Radeon HD 7340)
    • AMD E1-1200 APU (AMD Radeon HD 7310)
    • AMD E2-1800 APU (AMD Radeon HD 7340)
    • AMD E1-300 APU (AMD Radeon HD 6310)
  • AMD Radeon Discrete Desktop Product Family
    • AMD Radeon R9 280X
    • AMD Radeon HD 6500 Series
    • AMD Radeon R9 270X
    • AMD Radeon HD 6300 Series
    • AMD Radeon R7 260X
    • AMD Radeon HD 6200 Series
    • AMD Radeon R7 250
    • ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series
    • AMD Radeon R7 240
    • ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
    • AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
    • ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
    • AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
    • ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series
    • AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
    • ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series
    • AMD Radeon HD 7300 Series
    • ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series
    • AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
    • AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
    • AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series
    • AMD Radeon HD 6600 Series
  • AMD Mobility Radeon Family Compatibility
    • AMD Catalyst Mobility is a notebook reference graphics driver with limited support for system vendor specific features. When used with Windows Vista or Windows 7, the user experience may be limited or compromised. The Installation Verification Software is designed to prevent driver download on certain notebook products. This is to help protect against the installing of drivers that may disable features or functionality provided by the system manufacturer. When used with Windows Vista or Windows 7, the user experience may be limited or compromised. In such a situation, it is recommended to revert back to the driver provided by your system vendor for your specific platform. Please contact your system vendor for the most recent drivers for your notebook.
  • AMD Mobility Radeon Discrete Product Family
    • AMD Mobility Radeon HD 8000M Series
    • AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series
    • AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series
    • AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5100 Series
    • AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6900M Series
    • AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6800M Series
    • AMD PowerXpress enabled notebooks
    • AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6300M Series using AMD chipsets
    • AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6300 Series
    • AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6200 Series
    • AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series
    • AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5700 Series
    • AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5600 Series
  • Consumer Notebooks with AMD Accelerated Processor (APU) Product Family
    • AMD A10 Series APU
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 8000G Series
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 7000G Series
    • AMD A8 Series APU
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 8000G Series
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 7000G Series
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 6000G Series
    • AMD A6 Series APU
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 8000G Series
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 7000G Series
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 6000G Series
    • AMD A4 Series APU
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 8000G Series
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 7000G Series
      • utilizing AMD Radeon HD 6000G Series
    • AMD A10-5745M
    • AMD E2-3000
    • AMD A10-4657M
    • AMD E2-2000
    • AMD A10-4655M
    • AMD E2-1800
    • AMD A8-4557M
    • AMD E1-2500
    • AMD A8-4555M
    • AMD E1-2100
    • AMD A8-5545M
    • AMD E1-1500
    • AMD A6-5345M
    • AMD E1-1500
    • AMD A6-4455M
    • AMD E1-1200
    • AMD A6-5200
    • AMD E-300
    • AMD A4-4455M
    • AMD C-70
    • AMD A4-5000
    • AMD C-60
    • AMD A4-4355M
    • AMD PowerXpress enabled notebooks using AMD chipsets
  • Consumer Tablets with AMD Accelerated Processor (APU) Product Family
    • AMD A6-1450
      • utilitzing AMD Mobility Radeon HD 8250
    • AMD Z-01
    • AMD A4-1250
      • utilizing AMD Mobility Radeon HD 8210
    • AMD Z-60
    • AMD A4-1200
      • utilizing AMD Mobility Radeon HD 8180

The following notebooks are not compatible with this release:

  1. Any notebook launched after this driver release
  2. Toshiba notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)
  3. Sony VAIO notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)
  4. Panasonic notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)

Compatible Operating Systems:

  • Windows 8.1 (32 & 64-bit version)
  • Windows 8 (32 & 64-bit version)
  • Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit version with SP1 or higher)