AMD has released a brand new Adrenalin Driver, 23.8.1, which aims to fix several issues with Radeon RX 7000, RX 700M GPUs such as high idle power draw, game crashes & performance degradations.
AMD Fixes High Idle Power Draw, Performance Drops & Game Crashes For Radeon RX 7000 & Radeon RX 700M GPUs
The AMD Radeon RX 7000 GPUs in particular have been facing high idle power draw issues when running multi-display setups, high refresh rate displays, and high-resolution panels. The company recently rolled out an intermediate fix but is now offering even more optimizations (with more on the way). In addition to that, gamers can also expect various fixes to some of the most recent and popular games.
One example is Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart where the AMD Radeon RX 7000 GPUs were unable to support ray tracing and the developers had to disable it for the RDNA 3 cards prior to enabling it back again with the last driver release. Despite the newer driver release, the cards still exhibited application crashes and driver timeouts when running the title with ray-tracing or Dynamic Scaling enabled. So that's another issue that has been addressed.
There are also some fixes for the AMD Radeon RX 5000 and RX 6000 GPUs but one of the most interesting fixes comes in the form of the performance drop which was encountered on the AMD Ryzen CPUs with Radeon 700M GPUs. This was very prevalent on the Phoenix Ryzen 7040 series & the rest of the iGPU family. So it's great to see that AMD has a fix for this now.
Besides the fixes, AMD also adds support for Immortals of Avenum which was released yesterday. You can read our review of the game here. As for the full driver notes, they are listed below:
Highlights
- Support for
- Immortals of Aveum
Fixed Issues
- Improvements to high idle power when using select multi-display setups with mixed high-resolution and high refresh rate displays on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs with variable refresh rate enabled. Further optimizations are being investigated to improve idle power on additional display configurations.
- Performance drop may be experienced for DirectX 11 games on AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT when AMD SmartAccess Memory is Enabled.
- Application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart with Ray-Tracing and Dynamic Resolution Scaling enabled on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon RX 7900 XTX.
- Application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Starcraft II on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
- Intermittent corruption may be observed playing Rocket League with Bloom set to Off on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon RX 6900 XT.
- Performance drop may be experienced for various games on AMD Ryzen processors with Radeon 700M series GPUS.
Known Issues
- Performance Metrics Overlay may report N/A for FPS on various games.
- Audio may intermittently become out of sync with video when recording from AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition with AV1 codec.
- Display may not reach the correct brightness with certain games on some SAMSUNG FreeSync Premium Pro displays and TVs when local dimming is enabled.
- Application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Baldur's Gate 3 with DirectX11 API set on certain systems with Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
Important Notes
- Factory Reset has been temporarily disabled as a precautionary measure while we address isolated installation issues that have been reported during PC upgrades. Users may use AMD Cleanup Utility as a temporary option.
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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