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AMD's New Radeon Preview Driver Boosts Performance Significantly
A AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022 for all Radeon graphics cards is now available for download. The AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022 boosts graphics performance in certain DirectX 11 games by up to 10% on AMD's latest Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards
In AMD's tests, Assassin's Creed Odyssey and World of Warcraft: Shadowlands fared 28% and 30% better, respectively. Additionally, the new driver optimizes SAM for Death Stranding and Watch Dogs: Legion. On a Radeon RX 6950 XT, AMD saw a 10% performance boost in Death Stranding and a 13% performance boost in Watch Dogs: Legion at 1440p. The Radeon RX 6750 XT increased frame rates in Death Stranding by 13% and Watch Dogs: Legion by 24%. AMD discovered a 6% improvement in Death Stranding and Watch Dogs: Legion on a Radeon RX 6650 XT. For testing, the company used a Ryzen 7 5800X3D and compared it to the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.5.1 driver.
AMD makes no mention of the benefits of other games in the release notes. The developer noted significant DirectX 11 performance increases in Crysis Remastered and God of War while using Cap Frame X, a popular frame capture and analysis tool. The developer used an overclocked Core i7-12700K in this scenario. Crysis Remastered saw a 24 percent improvement, while God of War saw a 41 percent improvement. The lows in Assassin's Creed Odyssey were 34% better. Customers can now change the sharpness of images using AMD's Radeon Super Resolution (RSR) 1.1 technology and the "sharpen effect" in the AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022. This Adrenalin version contains AMD's Bug Report Tool.
The AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022 for Radeon graphics cards is available on AMD's website. However, because this is a preview driver, there will be bugs. AMD has not stated when the final driver would be available.
You can download and try it here.
Highlights
- Radeon™ Super Resolution
- New “Sharpen Effect” slider that allows you to fine-tune the sharpness effect of RSR to your own desired settings.
- DirectX® 11 optimizations for Radeon™ RX 6000 series
- Up to 8% increase in performance in DirectX® 11-based games, using AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022 on the Radeon RX 6950 XT, versus the previous software driver version 22.5.1 RS-470
- AMD Smart Access Memory optimizations for Death Stranding™ and Watch Dogs™: Legion
- Up to 10% increase in performance with new SAM optimizations in Death Stranding™ @ 1440p Very High settings and up to 13% increase in performance with new SAM optimizations in Watch Dogs™: Legion, using AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022 on the Radeon RX 6950 XT, versus AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.5.1RS-471
- Up to 12% increase in performance with new SAM optimizations in Death Stranding™ @ 1440p Very High settings and up to 24% increase in performance with new SAM optimizations in Watch Dogs™: Legion, using AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022 on the Radeon RX 6950 XT, versus AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.5.1RS-472
- Up to 6% increase in performance with new SAM optimizations in Death Stranding™ @ 1440p Very High settings and up to 6% increase in performance with new SAM optimizations in Watch Dogs™: Legion, using AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022 on the Radeon RX 6950 XT, versus AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.5.1RS-473
Known Issues
- Visual corruption may be seen in-game menus on Age of Empires™ II: Definitive Edition and Age of Empires™ III: Definitive Edition using Radeon™ RX 6000 Series.
- Some textures may flicker during movement in War Thunder™ using Radeon™ RX 6000 Series.
- Foliage corruption may be seen in The Elder Scrolls® Online with ultra pre-set settings using Radeon™ RX 6000 Series.
- Performance drop may be experienced while playing Fortnite™ with Multithreaded Rendering and DirectX® 11 API on some AMD Graphics Products such as the Radeon® RX 6900 XT Graphics.
- GPU utilization may be stuck at 100% in Radeon performance metrics after closing games on some AMD Graphics Products such as Radeon™ 570.
- Display may flicker black during video playback plus gameplay on some AMD Graphics Products such as the Radeon™ RX 6700 XT.
- Using Radeon™ Super Resolution on 2560x1600 resolution displays may produce a system hang. A temporary workaround is to set the display Scaling Mode to Full Panel.
- Enhanced Sync may cause a black screen to occur when enabled on some games and system configurations. Any users who may be experiencing issues with Enhanced Sync enabled should disable it as a temporary workaround.
- Radeon performance metrics and logging features may intermittently report extremely high and incorrect memory clock values.
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#6017513 Posted on: 05/16/2022 02:59 AM
Ill have to give Ryse a chance again. It ran like complete dogshit last time I tried it when I had my 2700x, 5700xt, and 3840x1080.
But back in the day with R9 290x crossfire, 2560x1080 and i7 3930k it ran like a dream pushing 3440x1440 downsampling back in 2016. And then it still ran like butter with a R9 Fury X.
strange one this.
if you use RTSS and ALT+TAB out of the game set fps to 60fps. Go back into the game, now ALT+TAB again and change fps cap to 300 and go back into the game. The fps goes through the roof, upwards of 250+fps ...
Ill have to give Ryse a chance again. It ran like complete dogshit last time I tried it when I had my 2700x, 5700xt, and 3840x1080.
But back in the day with R9 290x crossfire, 2560x1080 and i7 3930k it ran like a dream pushing 3440x1440 downsampling back in 2016. And then it still ran like butter with a R9 Fury X.
strange one this.
if you use RTSS and ALT+TAB out of the game set fps to 60fps. Go back into the game, now ALT+TAB again and change fps cap to 300 and go back into the game. The fps goes through the roof, upwards of 250+fps ...
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#6017535 Posted on: 05/16/2022 07:36 AM
Or you can look at it as finally addressing an old bottleneck in Windows.
As a side note, I retested DXVK Async 1.10.1 with these drivers, and it seems performance is a touch off, and mimics more of what it's like on the old DX setup, and not 100% 60 fps smooth. I wonder if some of this love needs to come over to Vulkan.
More likely the added overhead of Vulkan wrapping is now showing the penalty it should show from the get go, versus native DX11 done right.
DXVK helps when there are driver or game issues.
Naturally native Vulkan / DX12 would be even better most likely.
Either way gonna test this driver myself as soon as possible. Have a bunch of games to test, both DX11 and OGL.
Or you can look at it as finally addressing an old bottleneck in Windows.
As a side note, I retested DXVK Async 1.10.1 with these drivers, and it seems performance is a touch off, and mimics more of what it's like on the old DX setup, and not 100% 60 fps smooth. I wonder if some of this love needs to come over to Vulkan.
More likely the added overhead of Vulkan wrapping is now showing the penalty it should show from the get go, versus native DX11 done right.
DXVK helps when there are driver or game issues.
Naturally native Vulkan / DX12 would be even better most likely.
Either way gonna test this driver myself as soon as possible. Have a bunch of games to test, both DX11 and OGL.
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#6017536 Posted on: 05/16/2022 07:39 AM
To be fair AMD is tackling a wayyyy older issue with this driver, lols
To be fair AMD is tackling a wayyyy older issue with this driver, lols
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#6017767 Posted on: 05/16/2022 08:39 PM
Anyone with Vega GPU noticed any improvement? For me, actually, it looked like it got worse, at least in Overwatch.
Anyone with Vega GPU noticed any improvement? For me, actually, it looked like it got worse, at least in Overwatch.
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Just tested Ryse Son Of Rome and its still a complete mess.
Low GPU usage, low clocks, and horrible performance.
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just look at the frametime graph and the clocks on the GPU. This is at max settings 1440p and the GPU doesn't even touch 1GHz.
Crysis Remastered had a nice boost in performance with this driver so I thought maybe Ryse is now playable. Big fat nope.
Ill have to give Ryse a chance again. It ran like complete dogshit last time I tried it when I had my 2700x, 5700xt, and 3840x1080.
But back in the day with R9 290x crossfire, 2560x1080 and i7 3930k it ran like a dream pushing 3440x1440 downsampling back in 2016. And then it still ran like butter with a R9 Fury X.