AMD Radeon driver update boosts certain games up to 67% when using RX 7900 XT
The AMD Radeon 7900 XT gets big gains from its latest driver update.
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AMD’s Adrenaline 23.7.1 driver update is the gift that keeps on giving. Not only does itfix a number of issues with the RX 7900 line, which had been suffering with high idle power draw, it seems to have increased performance. It does seem to have improved performance in one game in particular but it has helped for a number of games to a much smaller degree.
The main increase that was seen for the7900 XTwas forForza Horizon 5. An increase was also seen for the7900 XTXto a lesser extent. Notably, Forza Horizon 5 had lower than expected performance on RDNA 3 to begin with. Performance increases can be seen across a number of games, however, and for a number of AMD’s Radeon cards, including the RX 6000 series.
This was all shown by YouTuberAncient Gameplays. Here are the main takeaways from that video:
Many will say this is more evidence of the AMD “fine wine” as they like to say. But regardless, it’s great to see games like Forza Horizon 5 getting the performance they rightly deserved from the beginning on RDNA 3. It’s even better to see other games receive pretty significant performance uplifts. Hopefully, there’s some quick fixes for the games that have ended up a little broken from this driver update.
One of the world’s first chiplet GPUs, the RX 7900 XT features AMD’s RDNA 3 architecture. Ready for next-generation gaming at 4K resolutions and beyond.
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