Should i keep the same drivers on a Radeon HD7870 - R9 380/390 transition?

Cerberus_SV · Nov 28, 2015

I have an AMD Radeon HD 7870 GPU and i am thinking of upgrading it and buying either a R9 380 or R9 390 video card. Technicaly on AMD's website, if you choose to download drivers for any of those 3 mentioned cards ( 7870, 380 and 390) it looks like it gives you the same file to download and in the category of "supported products" it includes them all.
So my question is: when i buy and place my new R380/390 card on my computer, is it necessary to reinstall the drivers or should i just leave them like that and my card will work normally without issues?

thor220 · Nov 28, 2015

You should uninstall your drivers before you even put the new card in. It'll avoid issues when windows installs the generic driver for your new card.

ShadyHamster · Nov 28, 2015

It will work (windows will automatically detect the card and install the right drivers, you may need to restart a couple if times) but it's always best to completely uninstall the drivers before installing the new card, then reinstall them once you have the new card in.

madmatt30 · Nov 28, 2015

Same drivers will work , even swapping an amd card out for another , it will force you to reinstall drivers again though as the card will show as a generic VGA adapter.

You don't have to uninstall drivers before though , just swap cards , boot & run the catalyst installation once .

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