People who own older 6000 series Radeon GPUs have been feeling left in the cold lately. AMD has been taking its sweet time with driver updates for the still-powerful GPU family. It released the last one in November, a lifetime for GPU drivers, especially with many holiday releases. Now the company has finally delivered a new driver for both its 7000 series and older GPUs. This unified driver brings features only available on 7000 series GPUs to their predecessors. It also promises big improvements across the board for older GPUs. Unfortunately, some users are reporting their systems are unable to boot after installation, but there’s likely an easy fix for the issue.
The drivers are officially called AMD Adrenalin 23.2.1. They’re compatible with all Radeon GPUs going back to the RX 400 series on desktops and 600 series on laptops. The headline features are that it improves 4K performance in the recently released Forspoken by 7% for the 6950 XT. The driver also includes optimizations for the recently launched Dead Space Remake. In addition, the release notes list many performance boosts for popular titles you can expect on a Radeon RX 6950 XT at 4K, ranging from 19% in F1 2022 to 4% in Hogwarts Legacy. Additionally, this new driver delivers streaming optimizations for H.264 and H.265 for RDNA 2 GPUs. This feature was previously only available on the 7000 series GPUs. AMD says it’s also improved OBS performance for streamers with older GPUs.
AMD claims it’s been able to deliver up to 10% performance improvement since Windows 11 launched in late 2021. Click to expand.
With the release of this driver, AMD is taking a moment to crow about how much its drivers have improved in the past year and a half. In a blog post, it shared benchmarks showing the improvements it’s been able to net since October 2021. Overall, AMD claims about 10% in performance gains across various titles.
Despite the wide range of improvements, not everything is rosy with AMD’s newest driver. For example, if you’re playing Hogwarts Legacy and are not happy with your AMD GPU’s ray tracing performance, neither is the company. In the notes, it says it’s working with the developer to “resolve performance issues” that occur when ray tracing is enabled. The company is also still trying to figure out why idle power draw is so high on Radeon RX 7900 series cards attached to high-refresh rate monitors.
There have also been reports of the driver changing the boot order on some systems. This seems only possible if you have an AMD CPU and GPU. Some users have already resorted to reinstalling Windows after seeing an error about their system not being bootable. However, according to Wccftech, you should examine the boot order in the BIOS first. It might have been inadvertently changed by the update, so it should be easy to switch it back.
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