AMD has released its brand new Adrenalin 23.12.1 Radeon GPU Driver which adds support for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora & several HYPR-RX and UI-related upgrades.
AMD Gives Radeon Software A New Look With New HYPR-RX Features & Support For Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora In Latest Adrenalin GPU Driver
The AMD Adrenalin 23.12.1 WHQL driver is now out and as a highlight, it adds support for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The game is an upcoming "AMD Sponsored" title which is not only bundled with Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon 7000 GPUs but also gets specific optimizations for these chips, making them the best hardware to play the game on. You can check out more details such as PC requirements for the game in our coverage here.
In addition to the game support, AMD has also updated its Radeon Software UI which now adds the option to enable HYPR-RX right on the Home Tab. Additionally, a new mode is being added to HYPR RX known as HYPR-RX Eco which will let gamers reduce the power consumption of their system and help them extend battery times. The HYPR-RX Eco profile will enable certain features found in AMD Radeon Software which can lead to up to 68% power savings. This feature is currently only limited to AMD's Radeon RX 7000 GPUs (or newer) and is said to run best with applications such as games running in Exclusive Fullscreen mode.
This mode can be huge for handheld devices and laptops as battery times are a big aspect of portable platforms. We can expect AMD to extend HYPR-RX Eco mode to its iGPU family such as the Radeon 700M lineup incorporated in various handhelds since they are based on the same RDNA 3 graphics architecture as the Radeon 7000 GPUs.
Furthermore, AMD wants to keep on adding more features to the HYPR-RX suite such as support for AFMF (AMD Fluid Motion Frames) which is coming out of technical preview soon. Some more UI changes mentioned in the blog post by AMD include even more customization options in the game tab.
You can download the drivers from the official AMD webpage here.
New Feature Highlights
- New Game Support
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
- NEW AMD Software UI Redesign –The Home and Gaming tab has undergone a UI redesign in this latest update of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition.
- HYPR-RX profiles can now be enabled easily on a global basis, or per-game on the Home Tab; additionally, games on the Home tab now will display key art for a more vibrant experience
- When users go to the Graphics section within the Gaming tab, they will be able to learn more about specific features in each HYPR-RX profile by clicking on individual features to display a content block that contains more information about what benefits each feature enables
- Now when you view your performance metrics in AMD Software, you can choose to customize elements such as the background or text colors, default enabled metrics through profiles, as well as select options such as showing the metrics overlay only while a game is open.
- Introducing: AMD HYPR-RX Eco – designed with power savings in mind, when HYPR-RX Eco is enabled, AMD Software will enable a suite of features for gamers to experience power savings with one click
- HYPR-RX Eco will launch initially with support for Radeon 7000 Series graphics support and RDNA 3 platforms
- Expanded OpenGL Interop Support - AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.12.1 expands support for FRTC, Radeon Super Resolution, Overlay, Record and Stream features to OpenGL games.
- Additional OS Feature Support
- Support for Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling for Radeon RX 7900/7800/7700 series GPUs.
- Additional SDK Support
- Additional Vulkan extensions.
- AI and Machine Learning
- DirectML improvements and optimizations for Topaz AI and DaVinci Resolve on AMD Radeon RX 600M, 700M, 6000, and 7000 series graphics.
Fixed Issues
- Improvements to high idle power when using select dual monitor display setups with mixed resolutions and high refresh rate displays (such as 1440p @ 120/144Hz + 1080p @ 120/144Hz or 2160p @ 120/144Hz + 1080p @ 120/144Hz) on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
- Intermittent micro-stuttering may be experienced when running Chromium-based browsers on systems that pair a Radeon RX 7000 series GPU with a secondary display connected to an AMD Ryzen 7000 series processor.
- Stars may intermittently fail to appear while playing Crysis Remastered.
- Certain textures may become invisible while playing Final Fantasy X HD Remaster on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
- Intermittent corruption may be observed on the racetrack while playing EA Sports WRC.
- Intermittent stutter while playing Overwatch 2 on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon RX 6900 XTX.
Known Issues
- Audio may intermittently become out of sync with video when recording from AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition with AV1 codec.
- Intermittent grey screen after driver upgrade with certain monitors (such as Nixeus NX-EDG274K) on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
- Performance drop may be observed in some light DirectML workloads.
- Graphics API metric may show as N/A in certain UWP applications.
- Intermittent flickering of certain ground textures may be observed while playing War Thunder with 4x SAAA enabled on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon RX 7900 XTX.
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