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AMD Adrenalin 21.4.1 Drivers Improve Non-Gaming Power Efficiency On Navi 21 Based Radeon Graphics Cards Apr 27, 2021 09:21 EDT
This month AMD released the latest Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 21.4.1 that comes with some great quality of life improvements for Radeon users. Alongside all of the features mentioned in the patch notes, the new drivers improve power efficiency in non-gaming scenarios.
The AMD RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, & RX 6900 XT See Significant Improvements In Idle And Media Playback Power Draw
TechPowerUp conducted tests using Radeon RX 6000 series SKUs. The RX 6700 XT, RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, and RX 6900 XT were all used to compare the 21.3.2 drivers with the 21.4.1 drivers. In their testing, idle power draw dropped roughly 70% for all of the Navi 21 based cards which are the RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, and RX 6900 XT, but stayed the same for the Navi 22 based RX 6700 XT which was already low, to begin with. The Navi 22 based RX 6700 XT didn t see much of an improvement
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It plays nice with AMD s Ryzen CPUs now, too. Credit: Brad Chacos/IDG
The fresh features may be arriving a bit later than their usual holiday time frame, but AMD’s massive annual update for Radeon Software is finally here, and it’s a doozy. Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 21.4.1 builds atop new features introduced alongside the recently launched Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card, seriously beefing up the capabilities of AMD’s awesome Link streaming feature, adding more performance metrics for AMD’s Ryzen processors, smoothing out the streaming experience, and more.
Apr 20, 2021 10:32 EDT with 3 comments
Today, AMD announced its major driver overhaul that was missed last year possibly due to the pandemic situation. The new WHQL driver is coming in the form of the Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.4.1. Despite a lot of new additions and updates, the driver is missing the most anticipated FidelityFX Super Resolution feature.
Fidelity FX Super Resolution is a part of AMD s FidelityFX DirectX 12 Ultimate suite and is said to be a framerate boosting technique similar to Nvidia s DLSS where an image will be rendered at a lower resolution and then upscaled to a higher resolution by using AI and ML techniques. However, AMD fans should not despair as there are rumors that FidelityFX Super Resolution will not come with a separate driver and will in fact be implemented in games separately. With that out of the way let s now talk about the loads of features that it does bring.