Radeon RX 7000 and RX 6000: AMD wants to bundle graphics drivers for new and old again

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AMD would like to bundle its Adrenalin Edition graphics driver again in the future and for Radeon RX 7000 (“RDNA 3”) as well as older generations such as Radeon RX 6000 (“RDNA 2″) and Radeon RX 5000 (” RDNA”). Within the next two weeks, the neglected graphics cards of the 6000 series are to be served first.

RDNA 2 was not not forgotten

While the RDNA 2 graphics cards remain at the level of Adrenalin 22.11.2 WHQL as of December 8, 2022, the RDNA 3 based graphics cards have Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT has since received four exclusive Adrenalin graphics drivers.

As Frank Azor, Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions & Marketing at AMD, now announced via Twitter, the developers are currently working on a new graphics driver for the Radeon RX 6000 series, which should be released soon.

We're working on new @amdradeon drivers for 6000 series and prior gen cards. Aiming to release them within the next 2 weeks.

Will provide another update if we run into any delays and as we get closer to posting them. Thank you for your patience

Frank Azor, AMD

Frank Azor doesn't seem to be completely convinced of this date either, who will send an update again in the event of a possible delay in the RDNA 2 graphics driver this topic.

RDNA 3 and RDNA 2 should use the same driver

When asked by the VideoCardz website, AMD's GPU boss confirmed that the manufacturer still intends to offer a unified graphics driver for several generations of its graphics cards.

< p class="p text-width">We remain committed to our unified driver strategy and we are working to get there again ASAP.

Frank Azor, AMD

In the course of the release of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT (test), the Adrenalin graphics driver was split into two versions and has not been reunited to this day.

While graphics cards on Based on the architectures RDNA 2, RDNA and older still had to fall back on the Adrenalin 22.11.2 mentioned at the beginning and therefore did not receive any Day 1 optimizations for newer games, RDNA 3 was released with the Adrenalin 23.1.2, Adrenalin 23.1.1, Adrenalin 22.12.2 and Adrenalin 22.12.1 supplied.

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