AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition Update Boosts Performance Up to 17 Percent

Nvidia released a new Game Ready driver today with expanded support for upcoming titles like Assassin's Creed Odyssey and its new RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti graphics cards. While the green team is moving forward, the red team decided to stop and improve support for existing titles. AMD's new Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.9.2 driver is all about offering better performance in currently available games.

AMD said the Adrenalin Edition 18.9.2 driver boasts improved performance for Radeon RX Vega 64 (8GB) graphics cards running F1 2018, Fortnite, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Star Control: Origins, which was released today. The exact performance gains vary between titles and range from a three percent boost to performance at the 2560 x 1440 resolution in F1 2018 to a 17 percent increase at the 3840 x 2160 resolution for Star Control: Origins.

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Game	Resolution	Performance Improvement
F1 2018	2560 x 1440	Up to three percent
Fortnite	1920 x 1080	Up to five percent
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	2560 x 1440	Up to four percent
Star Control: Origins	3840 x 2160	Up to 17 percent

"Some AMD Ryzen Desktop Processors with Radeon Vega Graphics system configurations may experience a black screen during installation downgrade to a previous Radeon Software version. A recommended workaround is to perform a clean install during Radeon Software installation.
Radeon RX Vega Series graphics products may experience elevated memory clocks during system idle.
System configurations with 16+ CPU cores may experience a random system reboot during installation when upgrading Radeon Software from a version older than RSAE 18.8.1. A clean installation is recommended when performing this Radeon Software upgrade."

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bit_user

Oops. Too late. I don't see most reviewers going back and updating the benchmarks they just ran on the RTX 2080 cards.

Maybe for the RTX 2070 launch? I guess that should be more within Vega 64's reach, anyhow.
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alextheblue

21337366 said:
Oops. Too late. I don't see most reviewers going back and updating the benchmarks they just ran on the RTX 2080 cards.

Maybe for the RTX 2070 launch? I guess that should be more within Vega 64's reach, anyhow.
I'm more of a $200-300 GPU kind of guy so I wish they had built a GDDR Vega 40 GPU (with a corresponding cut-down model) to replace the aging Polaris-based 580/570. But too late now - here's hoping their next-gen is full steam ahead... we clearly need the competition.
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