Thursday, January 12th 2023
AMD Software Adrenalin 23.1.1 for Radeon RX 7900 series Released
AMD for the past couple of weeks, has been releasing exclusive driver updates for the Radeon RX 7900 series, with which it hopes to iron out some glaring launch-time bugs for these cards. The latest from this driver branch is the Adrenalin 23.1.1 for RX 7900 series (these drivers won't work with older Radeon GPUs, for which drivers are released in the main trunk). AMD promised to release updates for all other GPUs. Version 23.1.1 addresses an intermittent driver timeout issue when applying Auto Overclock performance tuning; a driver timeout or crash may occur when playing "Valheim" with the Vulkan API, which has been fixed. With the latest "Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" update, a crash or driver timeout may occur with ray tracing enabled, which has also been fixed. Performance degradation observed after applying Factory Reset settings, has been fixed.
An AMD employee has confirmed on Reddit that a driver for owners of older graphics cards will be released soon.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Software Adrenalin 23.1.1 for Radeon RX 7900 series
Fixed Issues
An AMD employee has confirmed on Reddit that a driver for owners of older graphics cards will be released soon.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Software Adrenalin 23.1.1 for Radeon RX 7900 series
- Intermittent driver timeout may occur when applying Auto Overclock performance tuning.
- While playing Valheim an app crash or driver timeout may occur using Vulkan API.
- While playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, an intermittent app crash or driver timeout may occur when Ray Tracing settings are enabled.
- Minor performance degradation may be observed after applying a factory reset of settings.
- High idle power has situationally been observed when using select high resolution and high refresh rate displays.
- Intermittent app crashes or driver timeout may occur when using Radeon Super Resolution with some extended display configurations.
- Video stuttering or performance drop may be observed during gameplay plus video playback with some extended display configurations.
- Stuttering may be observed in UNCHARTED 4: A Thief's End during the opening game sequence.
- Some virtual reality games or apps may experience lower than expected performance.
32 Comments on AMD Software Adrenalin 23.1.1 for Radeon RX 7900 series Released
Two displays, 2560x1440@144 Hz + 2560x1440 @ 60 Hz
Idle power draw is about 33-35 W.
office work 4k@60 via hdmi
set up custom resolution, selected CVT reduced blanking (and reset driver via cru-1.5.1 / restart64.exe)
traced for some hours with gpu-z 2.52.0 and 0,5s sampling while doing office work.
average power draw ~26W. (significantly more than my short-time replacement rx 6600 - but ok, that one is unbeaten in idle power consumption)
here the distribution (x .. watts, y .. occurrences in trace):
- it seems gpu idles between 20-22 watts
- whatever actions in my office work pull the draw ~ +15 watts
YET, interestingly the GPU-Z's active tracing is keeping the GPU voltage up&down.
when I have only the adrenalin perf view opened, the GPU voltage is then quite stable around 110mV and the TBP is steady at 17W
I can just conclude that
* adrenalin 23.1.1 at least fixed the idle 4k@60 single monitoring mem clock that stays very low
* rx 7900 xt is quite sensitive about polling some values of it, which kicks the GPU voltage (it's like quantum world where observation affects the system)
there are some conditions that lead to the power consumption go higher than would usually be necessary.
e.g. youtube video playback fullscreen 4k@60 the gpu would suddenly consume ~100W. execute cru-1.5.1 / restart64.exe. same video playback -> ~50W
also the desktop idle consumption sometimes would want to stay in the 40-ies until a driver restart, goes then immediately to the 17W region.
thus, get yourselves the cru tool and have a shortcut to the restart64.exe on desktop: www.techspot.com/downloads/7345-custom-resolution-utility.html
AMD, come on!
Also as a side note, the lowest you can set the power limit is 90% of TDP, which I found pretty disappointing. I was hoping to set it at something like 80% to match the 250W flagships of yesteryear
[URL='https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-23-1-2-kb']AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.1.2 for AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 Series Graphics and Forspoken[/URL]
Highlights
Fixed Issues
my old rx 6900 xt I could UV and reduce clocks a bit and had 220-250w TBP and just few percent less perf. thus I was able to increase efficiency by a bit.
the rx 7900 xt just does not seem to be wanted to be tuned at all.
the nitro+ provides 2 bioses.
bios 1 goes "stock" up to 370W TBP. I find it just too power hungry and haven't played with it much. yes, here it is possible to UV and save 30-40W, because it is 'insanely' overvolted.
bios 2 seems to be like the "normal" with ~305W TBP. currently using for playing.
I still have the impression that there is potential in the drivers because some aspects are not reflected in the tuning page yet as rdna3 is different to previous single chip physical design. maybe things improve over time, even then with the upcoming _promised_ HYPR-RXidle power consumption again.. now 4k@120 10bpc
with 23.1.1 it used to be ~40w
with 23.1.2
- without monitoring and just peek the consumption ~25-30W
- with active monitoring, it idles ~40+W
as stated before the 7900 seems to be very sensitive to active monitoring. the less the pc is peeking in with any tools, the less the idle power consumption. funny..