AMD has released a new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.7.1 improves the Radeon RX 480’s power distribution, lowering the current drawn from the PCIe bus. In addition, this driver brings performance improvements for the Polaris architecture that yield performance uplifts in popular game titles of up to 3%.
You can download this new AMD driver from here.
Here is the changelog for the AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.7.1:
Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.7.1 Highlights
- The Radeon™ RX 480’s power distribution has been improved for AMD reference boards, lowering the current drawn from the PCIe bus.
- A new “compatibility mode” UI toggle has been made available in the Global Settings menu of Radeon Settings. This option is designed to reduce total power with minimal performance impact if end users experience any further issues. This toggle is “off” by default.
- Performance improvements for the Polaris architecture that yield performance uplifts in popular game titles of up to 3% [1]. These optimizations are designed to improve the performance of the Radeon™ RX 480, and should substantially offset the performance impact for users who choose to activate the “compatibility” toggle.
Fixed Issues
- Radeon™ RX 480 limited PCI-E Bandwidth (PCI-E bandwidth is now at the correct speed on the Radeon™ RX 480) with Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.7.1.
- Minor stuttering no longer occurs in Grand Theft Auto V on Radeon™ RX 480 with Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.7.1.
- Video corruption will not be observed in DOOM with resolutions above 1920×1080 with Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.7.1.
- Hitman™ graphical corruption no longer occurs when the game is set to use DirectX®12 API and using zoom with weapons with Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.7.1.
- Display will not exhibit minor flicker on Radeon™ RX 480 when Freesync is enabled on a games launch or exit with Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.7.1.
Known Issues
- A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved “In Game Overlay”.
- Radeon™ Pro Duo may experience a black screen in Total War™: Warhammer with the games API set to DirectX®12 and V-Sync enabled.
- DiRT™ Rally may experience flickering terrain in some races when the advanced blending option is enabled in the games settings page.
- Some Overdrive settings may not appear in Radeon Settings for Radeon™ Fury X when in AMD Crossfire mode.
- Dota™2 may crash when using the Vulkan™ API and the user changes resolutions or quality settings.
- Battlefield™ 4 may experience crashes when using Mantle. As a work around users are suggested to switch to DirectX®11.
- Need for Speed™ may experience flickering on some light sources in AMD Crossfire mode.
- Frame Rate Target Control gaming profiles may fail to enable for some games.
- Radeon Wattman may retain settings of an overclock after it has failed. If you have failed an overclock with a system hang or reboot make sure to use the “Reset” option in the Radeon WattMan settings page when the system has rebooted.
- Low frame rate or stutter may be experienced Wolfenstein®: The Old Blood™ on Radeon™ RX 480.
- Assassin’s Creed® Syndicate may experience a game crash or hang when in game settings are set to high or greater.
- Disabling AMD Crossfire mode on Radeon™ RX 480 may disable the device in Windows® Device Manager. A workaround is to reboot the system to re-enable the device.
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AMD has really been doing a better job of updating drivers. Good to see this come out. Hopefully this stops a lot of the astro-turfing.
apparently has fixed pretty much nothing, toms hardware germany tested the new drivers, and there’s a slight improvement, but still out of standards…
I don’t even have a RX480 and it burned down my house!
The wrong kind of 480. /s
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All these memes
ha ha i own the 970 and that is funny! +1 to you
Tom’s hardware cannot be trusted. That site has huge Intel/Nvidia
Well i don’t know, let’s just wait and see.
Actually PCPerspective, said pretty much the same…
And HardOCP, but wait they are Inte/Nvidia fanboys also, lol
Could it just be that Intel and Nvidia offer far superior products (at higher price points) which AMD has no answer for? nah, just nvida/intel fanboys!
Ye i know this trend, to be neutral you’ve got to say good things about amd, always, at that point you can say u’re neutral. AMD faboys are exploting too much this.
I personally don’t give a sht i’ll buy whoever sells the better product
No they aren’t they actually test things out really the only site that i can think of that is bias is PCPerspective, anandtech,.
When it comes to serious data i always tune to Techpowerup they have the best comparisons and do quite a good job on PSU reviews. Techpowerup is the first place i go to and then i go to other sites.
bias
“Battlefield™ 4 may experience crashes when using Mantle. As a work around users are suggested to switch to DirectX®11.”
How long has this been the case? So they’re never going to fix Mantle support? Nice reminder to never ever trust them on anything and that they are just as bad as nvidia in every way if not worse recently.
AMD software has always been terrible, no matter what spin they put on it this time.
I don’t play BF4, I just think it’s ridiculous that AMD would have a “known issue” about a game that old in their new driver, and not for the first time. And the solution is LOL DON’T USE THAT VERSION OF THE GAME EVEN THOUGH WE PUSHED IT WITH MARKETING BACK IN THE DAY. It’s just despicable.
God bless you NVIDIA my green Beast
I truly do believe Amd released these cards a little bit quicker then expected, Amd has great engineers NO WAY they missed this they probably just figured it would be better financially to release the cards and fix the problem in a driver hell maybe they didn’t think people would notice. I personally do not see nothing wrong with that they fixed the problem and the 480rx is the best card for 200$ and IMO a 250-280$ 1060 will be a tougher card to recommend over the 480rx unless the person wanted to spend that much anyways(rumors of being 15% faster while being 30% more expensive).
Still however this does not change the fact that Nvidia still has the upperhand in terms of efficiency or performance per watt. A 970 at the same 14nm node would do much better then Polaris 480rx does and use less power. However to the end consumer they do not care its all about performance per dollar as it should be anyways since the 480 rx doesn’t use that much power.