AMD has just released its May 2022 graphics drivers , which bring an improvement that all PC gamers always appreciate having: more frames without paying more money. What is the performance boost they bring to AMD Radeon graphics cards and which games benefit the most from it? Let’s see which ones and to what degree.
A bad driver for any component or peripheral can mean that it does not perform as expected. And it is precisely the graphics cards, due to their complexity, that are the most vulnerable to this. Hence, manufacturers are continually releasing new versions. Not only for new models, but also to optimize existing models. Well, AMD’s new drivers have delivered a double-digit performance boost in a number of games. So this is very good news for users of Radeon graphics cards.
And it is that it is one of the points in which AMD is trying to solve its disadvantage against NVIDIA. At the moment we can say that the quality of their drivers for their graphics cards have been increasing in quality in recent times. And it is that in the AMD drivers of May 2022 it has been possible to see a qualitative leap compared to the previous ones.
Significant Performance Boost with AMD May 2022 Drivers
Specifically, the performance increase is in games that use DirectX 11 APIs, where the general increase is 8%. Although this figure is an average of all the games and using the Cap Fame X tool, they ensure that they have been able to measure increases of up to 24% in Crysis Remastered. Although the one that gets the most benefit is the PC conversion of the PlayStation 4 classic. And it is that God of War achieves an additional performance of 41% . Not without forgetting the cases of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and World of Warcraft: Shadowlands where they get an additional performance of up to 30%.
Nor can we forget the advantage of AMD as it is a manufacturer of both PC processors and graphics cards. Thus, by making use of Smart Access Memory or SAM, we find two games that benefit greatly: Watch Dogs with an additional 24% performance and Death Stranding with 13% . Both in the cases described in the previous paragraph and in this one, these increases in performance are achieved in its new top of the range. That is, the RX 6950 XT . so the increase in frame rate will be lower on graphics cards with more modest specifications.
Another of the improvements that AMD has integrated into the May 2022 drivers is for the RSR. And it is that they have included a bar that allows us to optimize the degree of application of the sharpness effect in the Radeon Super Resolution. This will allow us to reduce the oversmoothing that occurs in some games and that so much clouds our experience with them.
