The second graphics driver of the month from AMD, Radeon Software Crimson ReLive 17.5.2, adds optimizations for Bethesda’s new shooter, Prey. AMD claims that it will yield up to a 4.5% performance improvement, as measured on an RX 580 (versus the same card with 17.5.1). This is over and above the up to 4.7% increase that 17.5.1 had over 17.4.4.
Outside of that game, 17.5.2 also addresses four issues. The first is a crash in NieR: Automata. The second is long load times in Forza Horizon 3. The third is a system hang with the RX 550 when going sleep. The fourth fixed issue is a bit more complicated; apparently, in a multi-GPU system, where monitors are attached to multiple graphics cards, the primary graphics card can appear disabled in Radeon Settings. All four are now fixed, so, if they affect you, then pick up the driver.
As always, they are available from AMD’s website.
Those perf boost are huge…
Those perf boost are huge… its like going from RX 480 to an RX 580
aynone testing nvidia and amd claim on driver performance ?
Also anyone do driver performance evolution ?
like take Prey and The Radeon 7970 and GTX 480 from 2011,
and test with 7 years of drivers ? (maybe 2 a year)
https://m.hardocp.com/article
https://m.hardocp.com/article/2017/02/08/nvidia_video_card_driver_performance_review/13
https://m.hardocp.com/article/2017/01/30/amd_video_card_driver_performance_review_fine_wine/1