So yesterday AMD announced the name of its next major annual driver update, Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition. Not much info on what Adrenalin will bring to the table apart form the fat it is named after a florist favorite the Adrenalin Rose. However, AMD did reiterate its commitment to frequent driver updates, particularly when new games are released.
| "As a reminder, over the past three years, Radeon Software has delivered to users 70 software releases, launch day support for more than 75 games and over 50 new or enhanced features, with more than 250 million downloads across the globe. Radeon Software continues to lead the way in elevating high-performance gaming and VR experience for gamers, professionals and game developers" - AMD |
Adrenalin will take over from Crimson ReLive drivers, which according to AMD have a 90 percent user satisfaction rating for the past 12 months.
Barring a change of course, the Adrenalin name will carry AMD's driver releases through the bulk of 2018, just as Crimson ReLive did in 2017, Crimson in 2016, and Omega in 2015. The main question surrounding AMD's graphics devision is what the future holds now that Raja Koduri has left the company to join Intel. Koduri led AMD's Radeon Technologies Group since it was formed two years ago, then took a sabbatical after shipping the somewhat disappointing Vega The first Adrenalin release will be sometime this month.