so guys a few days ago we had the opportunity to sit down with AMD at
their Markham offices and talked about a bunch of new things and while some of
them will need to stay locked away a big part of our time was spent discussing
their drivers so for those of you who've been following a channel for a while now
you'll notice that this is a video that we do every year around the same time as
a matter of fact last year on December the 12th we posted our video on the
Adrenalin and edition drivers and you can actually check it out right over
here but basically AMD tends to roll out major updates on a yearly basis and so
here we are in mid-december and boom a massive overhaul for Radeon software you
see many years ago AMD was known for having amazing hardware but they were
held back by some pretty poor drivers now they're on a mission to deliver the
best software possible and move the perception of gamers away from the old
thought that AMD is amazing but their drivers really suck kind of thing so now
they want to deliver day one support for new games and also want to add a lot
more features to their GPUs so let's discuss a little bit more about that
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performance luck on these new drivers well according to AMD they made some
pretty big steps since the original Adrenalin Edition drivers that were
launched about a year ago so this is a chart that they provided us and there
has been some significant improvements but remember this is a year of
development but you can also see some of these titles like battlefield 5 and
Assassin's Creed Odyssey weren't even around when the Adrenalin was first
introduced in 2017 but with AMD's focus on day 1 driver support for new games
there's a big performance improvement over you using older software another
big focus for AMD is their project ReSX which targets popular esports games
like overwatch and fortnite for special treatment basically they're
aiming to boost FPS while also lowering response times and improving 99th
percentile frame times but what does this all mean in real-world testing
let's check it out but before that I wanted to mention how these were tested
basically I took AMD's 18.61 drivers which were launched in June and I'm
comparing them to the adrenalin in 2019 at 1080p resolution it should be
interesting so as you can see that even with some older games like overwatch and
destiny there are performance boosts but the bigger ones come with battlefield 5
basically the newest game received a one driver updates that weren't around back
in June which is pretty cool alright so enough about performance
since there's a lot more to talk about and I don't want this video to run close
to the 20 minute mark again but I do want to mention something really quickly
AMD has been adding a lot more features their latest update and that's primarily
because of the community feedback that they've been receiving so they've been
hosting the Radeon team has been hosting regular feedback sessions on reddit
Twitter and even their diminishing service to their drivers so that as soon
as you know they get those results in they actually start developing the new
features honestly guys the most interesting thing about these new
drivers is what AMD is bringing to the game streaming space while you can
already use the relive features to stream your gameplay to services like
twitch YouTube and mixer really of games streaming service allows you to
wirelessly stream your PC games directly to your phone or tablet over a Wi-Fi
network so a quick overview before we show this in action basically AMD game
streaming is meant to offer exactly what valves steam link and in videos game
stream technology do but it doesn't require another box like the Nvidia
shield to run the only small hiccup is that it isn't officially compatible with
Android TV solutions but if enough people ask for it they'll look into
porting it over so ask for it guys according to AMD since this uses the
asynchronous compute engine within GCN GPUs latency is better than on other
solutions like steam link the only performance cut will be between one to
three percent which is basically the overhead from AMD link running in the
background setup is actually pretty easy too at least that's the way it worked at
AMD HQ the first thing you do is download the AMD link app on either your
Android or iOS device scan the QR code to pair with your PC and select the game
from the game Explorer tab it's then a simple matter of actually
playing since AMD gives you the option to either use on-screen controls or a
Bluetooth controller in theory it should be possible to get this setup with your
TV provided you have an Android compatible wireless controller
supposedly Bluetooth keyboard and mouse could work too but we didn't get to test
that now considering this is a first generation technology I thought it
worked pretty well but there were a few streaming hiccups and artifacts every
now and then the nice thing is that you can even
change the resolution in case your GPUs having trouble streaming at your devices
native resolution we're actually going to cover this a bit more soon so stay
tuned for that if there's anything specific you want to know let us know in
the comments down below one of the other interesting features rolling out in
these new drivers is Radeon game advisor now it might not sound as amazing as
game streaming but let's check it out anyways so basically this analyzes
performance as you play a game so here I am playing battlefield 1 and I can press
alt R to bring up a Radeon overlay this overlay tool was launched with Adrenain
in 2017 and it brings a massive number of tools right at your fingertips in a
game so in the game advisor tab you can see that it after after quickly test
performance of my system in this title ill recommend some changes to either
improve frame rates or give better image quality
I think this feature will likely appeal to people who quickly want to optimize
their game and get playing instead of spending a while going through the whole
trial and error process it's also probably a pretty big deal or it's
probably going to be a pretty big deal for novices who are just getting into PC
gaming and might not be able to use you know all the options that they encounter
so back to other few options in the overlay features AMD has added a
centralized display tab that houses options like the ability to turn on free
sync and enhance sync there's also an option to control colors in-game as well
luckily the Radeon overlay will remember all of these settings for the next time
you launch a game or a specific title but remember that some monitors require
you to turn on free sync on the panel before it's enabled in AMD's software
Wattman is the overclocking utility for AMD cards and it's now in the overlay as
well with the ability to overclock or automatically overclock the GPU and its
memory that's pretty cool since it allows you to create a game specific
overclocking profile and tested immediately rather than just use
the global settings finally the performance tab is still around but it
has a whole new makeover with a ton of customization options that includes you
know adjustable colors modifiable columns and a lot more it's a pretty
cool area to show and login game performance metrics
speaking of wattman it got a shot of Adrenalin into with automatic GPU and
memory overclocking as well as dynamic GPU under volting there's also better
control for fan curves and the RX Vega GPUs get a few targeted improvements too
with fine grain adjustments for DPM States and even some very serious memory
tuning options a next up is a small but pretty improvement to facing to HDR you
might remember Dmitry had some issues with HDR displays blowing out
bright colors and scenes in some games well-aimed he's now adding Auto tone
mapping into scenes so they keep the detail when HDR is enabled that's a huge
relief and I'm hoping Nvidia does the same things since their cards experience
these same problems the last thing that I wanted to cover is something that's a
bit small when compared to some of these other huge items its extended support
for virtual super resolution or VSR upscaling on 21 by 9 displays it was
actually one of the most requested items on AMD surveys so they ended up adding
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have it I know it was a lot to cover but believe it or not there were a bunch of
changes in these new drivers that I personally wasn't able to get to but I'm
really curious to test out some of the new features like game streaming for
example and see how that plays out with my smartphone but what we're really
seeing here is AMD continuing to develop their drivers and bring some really cool
exciting features to the forefront I just hope that their hardware makes a
real comeback as well so that's it for me let me know what you guys think about
the new update from AMD in fact if you own an existing aim to GPU would you
consider taking a manage or would you actually take advantage of some of these
new features at AMD is rolled out love to know in the comments down below
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