AMD Catalyst

AMD Radeon Crimson

AMD Catalyst Control Center
Original author(s)	ATI Technologies
Developer(s)	Advanced Micro Devices
Initial release	June 13, 2002; 14 years ago (2002-06-13) (v. 2.1)
Stable release	Windows 16.12.1 (December 8, 2016; 60 days ago (2016-12-08)) Linux 15.12 (December 17, 2015; 13 months ago (2015-12-17))
Preview release	Windows 15.11.1 Beta (November 16, 2015; 14 months ago (2015-11-16))
Operating system	Microsoft Windows Linux
Platform	IA-32 and x64 .NET Framework Qt
Size	288 MB
Type	Device driver and system monitor
License	Proprietary / Freeware
Website	AMD Catalyst

16.12.1 (December 8, 2016; 60 days ago (2016-12-08))

AMD Radeon Software Crimson (formerly named ATI Catalyst and AMD Catalyst) is a device driver and utility software package for Advanced Micro Devices's graphics cards and APUs. It runs on Microsoft Windows and Linux, on 32- and 64-bit x86 processors.

Radeon Settings replaced the old AMD Catalyst Control Center. AMD Catalyst Control Center uses Qt as part of its toolchain.

AMD Catalyst is targeted to support all function blocks present on a GPU's or APU's die. Besides IC targeted at rendering, this includes display controllers as well as their SIP blocks to do video decoding, Unified Video Decoder (UVD) and video encoding Video Coding Engine (VCE).

The device driver also supports AMD TrueAudio, a SIP block to do sound related calculations.

AMD Catalyst supports the following AMD (and ATI-tradition) product lines targeted at rendering:

The following product lines are probablynot supported by the AMD Catalyst, but instead by some other software, which (for example) is OpenGL-certified: