AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group Turns 1, Company Reminds Us What It’s Been Up To

Can you believe it? It’s already been an entire year since AMD created the Radeon Technologies Group with the goal of establishing itself as the market leader in graphics. Has the company succeeded? That’s impossible to answer given we’re talking about a single year, but it’s not impossible to say that the company seems to be on the right track.

Over at Radeon.com, AMD’s Chris Hook reminds us of what RTG has been up to since its inception, and provides a cool graphic for soaking it all in.

In November, RTG released Crimson, an overhauled Radeon driver that focused on performance, stability, and of course, features. Not long after, AMD showed off the first public demo of FinFET, as well as a real-time HDR rendering demo. The next month, the company created GPUOpen, an initiative that aims to keep important GPU-related technologies “open”, and free.

Earlier this year, AMD’s RTG released its first Vulkan driver, and as we found out later on, games that take advantage of that API can exhibit huge gains when compared to OpenGL. Leading us up to the one year anniversary, AMD launched the Radeon.com website, launched its Polaris-based line-up (with the RX 480 on top), announced its Radeon Pro line of professional graphics cards, and just last month, the 101st FreeSync monitor model was released to market.

To say that AMD’s had a seriously busy first year with its RTG would be a serious understatement. What’s next? The next big release will be AMD’s Vega-based graphics cards, although we’re still not confident on a launch date (it could be late 2016 or early 2017). Its first Radeon Pro graphics cards might be released soon as well, and beyond that, we’re sure the company has more surprises in store for us before the year’s through.