My Radeon RX 7900 XT just got a lot more powerful, for free thanks, AMD!

Date:
Tue, 25 Jul 2023 10:44:00 +0000

Description:
A new update to AMDs Radeon Adrenalin software has seen performance leaps of as much as 67%.

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Lets be honest: GPU driver updates are rarely a source of much excitement. Were normally talking about tiny, marginal improvements, or simply fresh support for performance-boosting software in newly-released games. But every now and then, we see an update that makes a genuine difference and thats
what weve seen today.

A new graphics driver update for AMDs Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition has shown a whopping 67% performance improvement for the Radeon RX 7900 XT . Granted, thats just one specific GPU playing one specific game at one
specific resolution ( Forza Horizon 5 at 1080p), but its still a wildly impressive leap in framerate.

The flagship Radeon RX 7900 XTX also gets a big boost in Forza Horizon 5 and The Last of Us, though its not quite as pronounced. Looking at a wider slew
of results as tested by YouTuber Ancient Gameplays , performance boosts are a bit less impressive at higher resolutions, with an average framerate increase of 23-24% at 4K for both cards (although, since testing was performed with a Ryzen 7 CPU, its possible there was a processor bottleneck at play here). Driver updates arent all Adrenalin is good for

While most of the best graphics cards certainly the most popular ones,
anyway might be made by Nvidia, its fair to say that AMDs software interface has the lead. Adrenalin offers a more robust feature set than Nvidias GeForce Experience software (though Nvidias less complex offering might be preferable to users who prefer to simply hit optimize settings and jump straight into a game).

These latest drivers really put Adrenalin in the spotlight. Its rare to see performance leaps this significant purely from a free software update and its an interesting testament to the effectiveness of good driver support. Nvidia and AMD both routinely release new graphics drivers, but they sometimes feel more like an afterthought than a vital improvement.

Part of why these sorts of driver updates are important is how they impact older GPUs. AMDs last-gen RX 6000 graphics cards also benefited from a 10-25% performance boost in the relevant games with this new update, and some of those GPUs are close to three years old now. Theres a constant push from PC hardware manufacturers to upgrade and buy new components, but performance boosts this significant purely from free, instantly downloadable software tweaks indicate that maybe, just maybe, nobody actually needs to buy a new
GPU every two years.

Think about it. AMDs recently-released RX 7600 outperformed its predecessor the RX 6600 by about 19% in our testing process. If that sort of performance boost in the latest games could be secured for the 6600 without a hardware upgrade, why bother with the 7600 at all? Its a question some GPU makers probably dont want us asking especially with two hotly-anticipated AMD GPUs now very close to release .



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/my-radeon-rx-7900-xt-just-got-a-lot-mo re-powerful-for-free-thanks-amd


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