Updateing drivers for old GPU-s

mihalyk2000

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Hi,

I have an old Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7750 1GDDR5 GPU, and I always update the drivers to the latest ones, but I never see a bugfix for older GCN cards in changelogs. Even if I still have support for drivers, not like my old HD6670, does it worth upgradeing the driver? What benefits I have by updateing my drivers regurally (just some minor problems, like screen flickering fixes in unknown games?)
 

Jester Maroc

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It is unlikely that you will be able to find updated drivers newer than the Legacy drivers found on AMD's site. Win10 would also have their own version.

The only benefit to updating the drivers would be compatibility with newer Windows and newer games and possibly more stability (you will have to test this yourself, it could be that older drivers are actually more stable).
 

mihalyk2000

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i'm highly overclocking my current GPU, and I will stick with it until Vega. All the time i'M checking for driver updates, and today I received one. But since I didn't saw from long time ago a mention to old GCN gpu-s, I was curious if I still get a benefit. After researching a little bit, I found out that I can get "stability" and "more fps" on NEWER games on newer drivers. For example, in Source 2 I will have more FPS with newer driver than older driver (and than in source 1). I'm still waiting for some replys, so I can learn more :)
 

Jester Maroc

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I highly doubt it (that the newer drivers will be able provide significant performance gains). On source 2 (when it eventually arrives.................) the VRAM requirement will most likely be higher than source 1. You only have 1gb of VRAM.

With the newer drivers it is always down to trial and error. As an OC guy you definitely have experience with that! Some will give better performance and less stability, and others will give more stability less performance. It will require you to test them out and see which one works best for your system. Sorry for stating the obvious.
 

mihalyk2000

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Only improvements I see right now are stability when overclocking :D With last drivers from 800 MHz I played with 865-871 and it only "reset" the clock to 300 once at 1 hour, and now, didn't noticed any resets at clock memory...As I can see, tomshardware is somehow death, isn't like it was long time ago... Ty for you're answer, even if I knew all of these :D