AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition Overview

VSG · Dec 12, 2017

The next version of AMD's Radeon Software Graphics Drivers, Adrenalin Edition, has been released today, and it aims to add more than just a customizable overlay. One of the many exciting new features is AMD Link, an iOS/Android app that makes the most of a second-screen experience. This is a driver release that merits the time to go through in detail.

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INSTG8R · Dec 12, 2017

Pretty impressive feature set. Very excited to try out the new features!

AlienIsGOD · Dec 12, 2017

Link is out on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amd.link&rdid=com.amd.link

buggalugs · Dec 12, 2017

omg this comes at a perfect time. Just did a clean format of windows 10! Yeeeow!!

kruk · Dec 12, 2017

Wow, nice. Almost everyhing I wished for was added in this release. Bye Afterburner ...

xkm1948 · Dec 12, 2017

Still no Async Reprojection support for Fury/X. I knew i should not have any hope to begin with.

Oh well, at least we can some new features.

@fullinfusion Thx man, i know you tried!

m0nt3 · Dec 12, 2017

The opensourcing of the vulkan driver was not needed for games like F1 2017 ,they already work fine on the opensource RADV driver. Just a note. Also, the AMD driver will not be included with the default opensource driver stack, mesa and has to compiled or packaged separately.

GoldenX · Dec 12, 2017

My HD7750, growing stronger every day.

fullinfusion · Dec 12, 2017

If you guys click the link you'll have a chance to win one of three AMD Vega 64 cards

bug · Dec 12, 2017

What's EnhancedSync? If it's an answer to Nvidia's AdaptiveSync, then yes, that's one hell of a feature.

ZoneDymo · Dec 12, 2017

That framerate cap should be useful for games that dont have a cap setting build in when using Freesync.

(also reported Vlada011 for their completely unrelated fanboy remark)

VSG · Dec 12, 2017

bug said:
What's EnhancedSync? If it's an answer to Nvidia's AdaptiveSync, then yes, that's one hell of a feature.

Do you mean NVIDIA's Adaptive VSync? Adaptive Sync is completely different.

Enhanced Sync, based on W1zzard and a few others, is a better implementation of the same thing that NVIDIA set out to do with Adaptive VSync. Here's some more info: https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Radeon_Crimson_17.7.2_Preview/4.html

Readlight · Dec 12, 2017

This will take some time, i can now replace this whit msi afterburner, i not shure but only vsyc works on hdmi -vga. Vulkan newer works on my PC.
Is there some CAD programs free to use i haw learned this in school?

bug · Dec 12, 2017

VSG said:
Do you mean NVIDIA's Adaptive VSync? Adaptive Sync is completely different.

Enhanced Sync, based on W1zzard and a few others, is a better implementation of the same thing that NVIDIA set out to do with Adaptive VSync. Here's some more info: https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Radeon_Crimson_17.7.2_Preview/4.html

Yeah it doesn't ssem to be better than Nvidia's Adaptive VSync, that page says it's better than Nvidia's FastSync. And while I really don't care about FastSync (my monitor only does 60Hz), I know Adaptive VSync is a huge boon. So it's great it's available on AMD, too, now.

SPLWF · Dec 12, 2017

How to enable enhanced sync?

Fluffmeister · Dec 12, 2017

No love for Vega?

https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/...rs-and-discussion.59649/page-238#post-2014390

VSG · Dec 12, 2017

SPLWF said:
How to enable enhanced sync?

See attached image.

Fluffmeister said:
No love for Vega?

https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/...rs-and-discussion.59649/page-238#post-2014390

As mentioned in the overview, this is a feature driver for Radeon GPUs as a whole and not just one microarchitecture.

NC37 · Dec 12, 2017

Great but if they still haven't fixed the bug with Overwatch that has been present for over a year, the heck with AMD. It's an embarrassment to have something like that persist as long as it has.

Fluffmeister · Dec 12, 2017

VSG said:
As mentioned in the overview, this is a feature driver for Radeon GPUs as a whole and not just one microarchitecture.

Indeed does seem that way, so no unlocked driver magic for Vega is to be expected:

Anandtech said:
A good amount of readers, and not just ours, are strongly under the impression that Adrenalin is an RX Vega super driver. This is not the case. Adrenalin is explicitly focused on the broader Radeon user base; it does not bring any Vega-specific performance enhancements or documented changes to the behavior of Vega-specific hardware features. As for game-dependent enhancements to pre-existing games – features like Wolfenstein II’s Rapid Packed Math (RPM) support and to a lesser extent GPU Culling and Deferred Rendering – Adrenalin is not bringing any of those either. On that note, AMD commented that “any functionality or enhancements would have been made available with our day-0 game drivers and not held back for Adrenalin Edition.” This follows AMD's previous committment to immediate day-0 driver updates over larger update packages for performance.

Xzibit · Dec 12, 2017

NC37 said:
Great but if they still haven't fixed the bug with Overwatch that has been present for over a year, the heck with AMD. It's an embarrassment to have something like that persist as long as it has.

Still haven't experienced the bug since Overwatch release currently on the latest drivers too and I was doing some matches earlier to check out the Winter Wonderland.

xkm1948 · Dec 12, 2017

Seeing across the board performance loss for FuryX. Not a huge amount but pretty steady though, 1%~2% lost in FPS.

New features are always welcome. It is free, nothing to complain about free stuff.

AlienIsGOD · Dec 12, 2017

NC37 said:
Great but if they still haven't fixed the bug with Overwatch that has been present for over a year, the heck with AMD. It's an embarrassment to have something like that persist as long as it has.

read the fixed issues, it says its fixed....only way you will know is if you play the game

Capitan Harlock · Dec 13, 2017

Finally Enhanced Sync is here, the overlay is not big and intrusive .
For now i just tested Doom with Vulkan and now is all fluid and good great.
Need to test it in other games too.

jigar2speed · Dec 13, 2017

Just installed it on HD 7970 GHZ, everything looks cool, will report if any bugs.

EDIT: Techpowerup updated its forums looks great too - *Thumbsup*

buggalugs · Dec 13, 2017

xkm1948 said:
Seeing across the board performance loss for FuryX. Not a huge amount but pretty steady though, 1%~2% lost in FPS.

New features are always welcome. It is free, nothing to complain about free stuff.

If it means steadier smoother frames and better latency its a small price to pay.!!

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