Bankie
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When AMD does large changes, like with the 7970/7950, R9 290x/R9 290, the drivers take the timeline I outlined above to mature (generally). 285 and Fury X aren't really all that new in terms of architecture outside of the memory compression improvement and some geometry engine improvements.
My old Radeon 8500LE was the worst as far as drivers. They wouldn't even install correctly. I remember that I had to a bit of searching just to find out that I'd have to extract the package using PowerArchiver and then install from the command line with various switches. There were other goofy issues but ATI eventually fixed most of them IIRC. It somewhat soured me on ATI/AMD hardware but luckily the last few cards of theirs that I've owned have been just fine.