AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 Released

[btarunr]

AMD today released Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1. These drivers add optimization for "Halo Infinite," with up to 17% increase in frame-rates measured on the RX 6900 XT, at 4K Ultra settings over the previous driver version; up to 19% increase measured with the RX 6800 XT, and up to 16% measured with the RX 6700 XT. Optimization is also added for "Icarus" and Blender 3.0 on RX 6000 series graphics cards. Among the fixes include a SteamVR Home noticed on the Radeon VII; driver time-outs noticed with the RX 5500 XT in "Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy;" Radeon Software becoming unresponsive with PUBG on multi-display mode with extended display; and artifacting noticed in "Forza Horizon 5" with the car models on cards such as the RX 500 series.

DOWNLOAD: AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1



Support For

• Halo Infinite
  • Up to 17% increase in performance in Halo Infinite @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 on the 16 GB Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.11.3.RS-434
  • Up to 19% increase in performance in Halo Infinite @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 on the 16 GB Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.11.3.RS-435
  • Up to 16% increase in performance in Halo Infinite @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 on the 12 GB Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.11.3.RS-436
• Fortnite
• Icarus
• Blender 3.0 on Radeon RX 6000 series Graphics.

Fixed Issues

• While running SteamVR Home on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon VII Graphics, some users may experience a crash.
• During Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy gameplay, some users may experience driver timeouts on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon RX 5500 XT Graphics.
• While playing PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds with multiple displays connected in extended mode, Radeon Software may become unresponsive when the user is in the lobby and attempts to open Radeon Software on the secondary display via the context menu.
• Visual corruption may be observed on a vehicle's logo or license plate number while playing Forza Horizon 5 on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon RX 500 series Graphics.

Known Issues

• After upgrading to the latest Radeon Software, the Power Tuning component of a saved tuning profile may not load correctly when a user imports a previously saved tuning profile.
• Enhanced Sync may cause a black screen to occur when enabled on some games and system configurations. Any users who may be experiencing issues with Enhanced Sync enabled should disable it as a temporary workaround.
• Radeon performance metrics and logging features may intermittently report extremely high and incorrect memory clock values.

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[AsRock]

I wounder how long it will take for these cards to be unsupported.

 

[Zubasa]

I wounder how long it will take for these cards to be unsupported.

Fiji was released in 2015, so the worst case scenario is 6 years.
Tahiti was released on in Feb 2011, that makes it more than a decade of driver support.

 

[AsRock]

Don't stop nVidia supporting the older stuff.

 

[Zubasa]

Don't stop nVidia supporting the older stuff.

Kepler fair a little bit better, the $3000 Titan Z was released in 2014 and driver support ended earlier this year.
This makes it live a year more than the Fury.
That is not counting OEM and crap like the GT720 in 2017 and GT1030 Kepler variant released in 2018.

 

[seth]

If you want to install latest "tweaked" driver for older AMD gpu you can search for "NimeZ Radeon Software".
I have some old unsupported AMD gpus and work fine with latest drivers.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Looks like AMD finally fixed the deal-breaker issue.

 

[zlobby]

So, no special Christmas driver treat this year, too? Eh...

 

[AsRock]

Kepler fair a little bit better, the $3000 Titan Z was released in 2014 and driver support ended earlier this year.
This makes it live a year more than the Fury.
That is not counting OEM and crap like the GT720 in 2017 and GT1030 Kepler variant released in 2018.

Umm, well i went to nvidia's site to check on drivers for the 1060 and it gave me the latest drivers.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Umm, well i went to nvidia's site to check on drivers for the 1060 and it gave me the latest drivers.

ummmm, 1060 is pascal, so of course you did.

You do realize kepler was the 600/700 series, correct?

Fiji was released in 2015, so the worst case scenario is 6 years.
Tahiti was released on in Feb 2011, that makes it more than a decade of driver support.

Actually, worst case would be 5 years, HD 6000 series was October 2010 to november 2015.

I doubt AMD will drop polaris anytime soon, despite the lower end cards being pathetic by todays standards the 480 alone has more users then all the GPUs AMD dropped earlier this year combined on steam. I'm going to guess that polaris, vega, and VII (all the non rDNA cards) will be dropped maybe a year after rDNA 3's release.

 

[Mussels]

People on reddit were praising this driver for the halo benefits, a loooooot

 

[Zubasa]

Actually, worst case would be 5 years, HD 6000 series was October 2010 to november 2015.

I totally forgot Terascale 3, had a HD5870 at the time so I skipped that gen.
The last WHQL Catalyst driver was in 2015 yes, but it did get a Beta version of the Crimson drivers in Jan 2016.

 

[AsRock]

ummmm, 1060 is pascal, so of course you did.

You do realize kepler was the 600/700 series, correct?


Actually, worst case would be 5 years, HD 6000 series was October 2010 to november 2015.

I doubt AMD will drop polaris anytime soon, despite the lower end cards being pathetic by todays standards the 480 alone has more users then all the GPUs AMD dropped earlier this year combined on steam. I'm going to guess that polaris, vega, and VII (all the non rDNA cards) will be dropped maybe a year after rDNA 3's release.

True, there is about 1-2 years in it depending if you go by the 290 or 390, my main issue is that they blocked you from upgrading the software all together now. AMD did not used to do this but now you cannot even try.

 

[Thimblewad]

Forza 5 performance on Vega 64 is also increased by 10-15%! In the cities over 25% at times, very good job!

 

[Mussels]

Damn i rememebered the Leschat custom drivers but they stopped in 2016.

It's always sad when hardware gets abandoned, but at least they still work with the old drivers

 

[kruk]

If you want to get maximum supported lifetime out of your GPU and use it mainly for non-Windows gaming, then just use Linux. AMD GPUs on Linux seem to have 2 decades of official support (no, I'm not joking, they just recently semi-retired R100/R200 (Radeon 7500/8500 series from 2001) - look here) which should be more than enough

 

[Mussels]

If you want to get maximum supported lifetime out of your GPU and use it mainly for non-Windows gaming, then just use Linux. AMD GPUs on Linux seem to have 2 decades of official support (no, I'm not joking, they just recently semi-retired R100/R200 (Radeon 7500/8500 series from 2001) - look here) which should be more than enough

That's a genuine suggestion these days tbh, with all the work valve has done with proton