This is a solid increase that saw the 6700 XT lead the RTX 3070 by 9% margin whereas previously it was 7% slower. Here we have the Radeon 6700 XT which was up to 17% faster using the preview driver, seen at 1440p where frame rates were increased from 82 fps to 96 fps. BenchmarksĪMD claimed anywhere from a 6% to a 24% performance improvement in Watch Dogs Legion with SAM enabled, depending on the GPU used. As usual we'll look at the performance across all 50 games, but before that we'll go over the data for a few games individually. All 50 games were benchmarked at 1080p, 1440p and 4K resolutions. Ideally we should have tested more GPUs but for a 50 game sample I think you'll understand why we limited the testing to a single graphics card.įor all testing Resizable BAR was enabled – that's SAM for the Radeon GPUs – and we're using a system powered by the Ryzen 9 5950X with 32GB of dual-rank, dual channel memory. To find just how much of a difference the new driver makes, we took our 50 game lineup to compare the Radeon driver version 22.5.1 and the new Preview Driver using the Radeon RX 6700 XT. Those are rather substantial boosts which could help improve Radeon RX 6000 series performance and help them stack up better against the GeForce competition. The notes also claim optimizations for SAM (Smart Access Memory) in Death Stranding and Watch Dogs Legion, with gains as high as 24%.

And while they used the 6950 XT as an example, the claim is that all RX 6000 GPUs should see improved DX11 performance.

The highlights of the driver release notes was that it added support for the new Radeon models and nothing else, but that same day, AMD released a second driver called ' AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022,' and the release notes for that driver were quite interesting.ĪMD's release notes claim that DirectX 11 optimization for Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs could result in up to an 8% performance improvement for the Radeon RX 6950 XT, versus the previous software driver version 22.5.1. Earlier this month, AMD released a new Adrenalin Edition 22.5.1 driver, which is the same driver we used to test all GPUs for the new Radeon refresh models including the 6650 XT, 6750 XT and 6950 XT.

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