After a “pause” of a few weeks, AMD has released a new driver, Adrenalin 22.7.1, which is also a major update to compensate. With the Swordsman Remake, a new game is supported in the classic way, but a lot has happened apart from that.
The Adrenalin 22.7.1 is a driver that promises a huge performance boost for OpenGL games. Radeon graphics cards sometimes had massive problems with the API that is rarely used in games compared to the GPU counterparts from Nvidia, with the new driver this should no longer be the case.
According to the release notes, Minecraft with OpenGL should run up to 79 percent faster on a Radeon RX 6950 XT in Ultra HD with the “Fabulous Settings” than with the Adrenalin 22.6.1. The Radeon RX 6400 is said to offer up to 75 percent more FPS with otherwise the same quality settings. A blog entry from AMD even reads up to 89 percent more FPS on a Radeon RX 6950 XT in Minecraft and up to 92 percent with a Radeon RX 6800 XT. It is unclear how the different values came about, but both results are very high.
Even if AMD explicitly only speaks of Minecraft, the improvements should also be used in other OpenGL play through. It is unclear whether the difference is of the same size there, but it is certainly possible.
Noise suppression becomes official after the leak
A few days ago, AMD itself leaked a new Radeon feature called Noise Suppression, and it's now official with Adrenalin 22.7.1: Noise Suppression will compete directly with Nvidia's RTX Broadcast. With the help of machine learning, the new feature can recognize background noise from a microphone input, separate it from the actual voice and then remove it so that the recipient only hears the voice as unchanged as possible. This not only works for your own microphone, but is also possible the other way around, i.e. noise suppression filters out the ambient noise of the sender if your own PC is the receiver.
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AMD Noise Suppression
Beginning with Adrenalin 22.7.1, Noise Suppression can be enabled under the Audio & Video tab in the Radeon driver menu. The input and/or output device that is to be processed must then be selected, after which games or programs such as teams are automatically filtered. The new feature is supported from a Ryzen 5000G APU or a Radeon RX 6000 graphics card. The neural network is calculated on the FP32 ALUs of the GPU, possibly using the RDNA 2 deep learning instructions – but this is only speculation.
Radeon Boost and RSR get a revamp
In addition, the Adrenalin 22.7.1 Radeon Boost VRS extends to the games Elden Ring, Resident Evil Village and Valorant, which, apart from the classic Radeon Boost behavior with a reduced render resolution, use variable rate shading to increase performance.
Radeon Super Resolution now also works on Ryzen notebooks, with hybrid graphics in combination with a Radeon RX 5000 and Radeon RX 6000. In addition, RSR was used in borderless full-screen Improved mode where the render resolution can now be set in the driver menu itself.
In addition, the release notes of Adrenalin 22.7.1 speak of compatibility with Windows 11 22H2, and Microsoft Agility SDK Release 1.602 and 1.606 together with Shader Model 6.7 is also supported. New Vulkan extensions are also included.
The Adrenalin 22.7.1 can be downloaded from ComputerBase as usual. Further details on fixed and still existing bugs can be found in the official release notes.
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AMD Adrenalin (formerly Crimson or Catalyst) is the driver for all Radeon graphics cards.
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