AMD is dropping the “Radeon” brand name from its graphics driver label. The new Radeon Adrenalin Edition 22.5.2 offers support for the “hardware eater” Hitman 3 with ray tracing, upscaling via drivers and AMD Radeon Super Resolution (based on FSR 1.0) on APUs as well as the latest Vulkan 1.3 features.
Big product care under a new name
On the games side, the latest AMD graphics driver for Windows 11 and Windows 10 supports not only the ray tracing update for Hitman 3 (test) but also Sniper Elite 5 and the free Vulkan 1.3 graphics API with an even more extended feature set.
The AMD Ryzen 6000 series aka Rembrandt APUs, specially designed for notebooks and based on Zen 3+, with an RDNA 2 iGPU, such as a Radeon 680M (test), can, according to the detailed official release Notes now also use AMD RSR, which has also been supplemented with a new “sharpening effect”.
Improvements have also been made to DirectX 11 and Smart Memory Access (test), which promise more performance in the form of more FPS. In particular, Death Stranding and Watch Dogs: Legion should benefit from the new driver.
HIGHLIGHTS
Support For
Sniper Elite 5™
Hitman 3™ Ray Tracing Update
Additional Vulkan® extensions. Click here for more information.
Radeon™ Super Resolution
Additional support – RSR is now compatible with AMD Ryzen™ 6000 series processors with integrated graphics.
New “Sharpen Effect” slider that allows you to fine-tune the sharpness effect of RSR to your own desired settings.
AMD Privacy View
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DirectX® 11 optimizations for Radeon™ RX 6000 series
< li>Up to 8% increase in performance in DirectX® 11-based games, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.5.2 on the Radeon RX 6950 XT, versus the previous software driver version 22.5.1 RS-470
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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: Adrenalin Edition 22.5.2 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: Adrenalin Editions 22.5.2 on the Radeon RX 6750 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: Adrenalin Edition 22.5.2 on the Radeon RX 6650 XT, versus AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.5.1RS-473
AMD Adrenalin Edition 22.5.2 – Release Notes
< p class="p text-width">The new Vulkan 1.3 extensions, three of which will find their way into the graphics driver with Adrenalin Edition 22.5.2, can be viewed on AMD's dedicated website.
New name and old problems
But the developers' specifications with the problems that have not yet been fixed also remain well filled and have been dragging around a whole series of older errors for quite some time now.
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.
Stuttering may be experienced while playing Call of Duty®: Warzone™ on the Caldera map with some AMD Graphics Products such as the Radeon® RX 6900 XT Graphics.
Higher than expected CPU usage when Instant Replay is enabled 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 2560×1600 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.
AMD Adrenalin Edition 22.5.2 – Release Notes
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Downloads
AMD Radeon Adrenalin Driver Download
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AMD Adrenalin (formerly Crimson or Catalyst) is the driver for all Radeon graphics cards.
