AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 23.8.1 Released (*** UPDATED: v23.8.2 ***)

 
AMD has published a graphics driver for all modern Radeon graphics cards. Adrenalin 23.8.1 supports Radeon RX 7900, RX 7700, RX 7600, RX 6000, RX 5000, RX 500, RX 400 and RX Vega graphics cards. Radeon for laptop are also supported (RX 6800M, RX 6700M, RX 6600M, RX 6500M, RX 6300M, RX 5700M/5600M/5500M/5300M, and 600 Series Graphics).

Changes in Adrenalin 23.8.1:

Highlights

– Support for Immortals of Aveum

Fixed Issues

– Improvements to high idle power when using select multi-display setups with mixed high-resolution and high refresh rate displays on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs with variable refresh rate enabled. Further optimizations are being investigated to improve idle power on additional display configurations.
– Performance drop may be experienced for DirectX 11 games on AMD Radeon™ RX 5600 XT when AMD SmartAccess Memory is Enabled.
– Application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart with Ray-Tracing and Dynamic Resolution Scaling enabled on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon RX 7900 XTX.
– Application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Starcraft II on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
– Intermittent corruption may be observed playing Rocket League™ with Bloom set to Off on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon RX 6900 XT.
– Performance drop may be experienced for various games on AMD Ryzen processors with Radeon 700M series GPUS.

 

UPDATE (2023.09.04): v23.8.2

Highlights

Support for
– Starfield: Up to 16% increase in performance for Starfield @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.8.2 on the Radeon RX 7900XTX GPU, versus the previous software driver version 23.8.1. Up to 16% increase in performance for Starfield @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.8.2 on the Radeon RX 7900XT GPU, versus the previous software driver version 23.8.1.

Fixed Issues

– Application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Baldur’s Gate 3 with DirectX 11 API set on certain systems with Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.

 

Downloads

• latest Adrenalin version for win10/win11 64-bit @ Geeks3D
• v23.8.2 downloads + release notes @ AMD
• v23.8.1 downloads + release notes @ AMD

 

Quick driver information

Adrenalin 23.8.1

 
GPU Shark 2 + RX 7900 XT

 
GPU Caps Viewer + RX 7900 XT

 

Adrenalin 23.8.2

GPU Shark 2 + RX 7900 XT

 

OpenGL support

Adrenalin 23.8.1

Adrenalin 23.8.1 exposes OpenGL 4.6 and 324 extensions (core profile) for a Radeon RX 7900 XT on Windows 10. This is the same support than Adrenalin 23.7.2.

GL_RENDERER: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.
GL_VERSION: 4.6.0 Core Profile Context 23.8.1.230810
OpenGL extensions: 324 

 

v23.8.2

Same OpenGL support than v23.8.1.

GL_VERSION: 4.6.0 Core Profile Context 23.8.2.230810

 

Vulkan support

Adrenalin 23.8.1 exposes Vulkan 1.3.250 and 163 device extensions for a Radeon RX 7900 XT / XTX on Windows 10 (64-bit). The Vulkan support is similar to the previous 23.7.2.

# of Vulkan devices: 1
- Device 1
  - name: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
  - device type: VK_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_DISCRETE_GPU
  - device ID: 1002-744C
  - API version: 1.3.250
  - VK_KHR_driver_properties information:
    - driverName: AMD proprietary driver
    - driverID_str: VK_DRIVER_ID_AMD_PROPRIETARY_KHR
    - driverID: 1
    - conformanceVersion: 1.3.1.3
    - driverInfo: 23.8.1 (LLPC)
  - # of extensions: 163

 

v23.8.2

Same Vulkan support than v23.8.1.

# of Vulkan devices: 1
- Device 1
  - name: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
  - device type: VK_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_DISCRETE_GPU
  - device ID: 1002-744C
  - API version: 1.3.250
  - VK_KHR_driver_properties information:
    - driverName: AMD proprietary driver
    - driverID_str: VK_DRIVER_ID_AMD_PROPRIETARY_KHR
    - driverID: 1
    - conformanceVersion: 1.3.1.3
    - driverInfo: 23.8.2 (LLPC)
  - # of extensions: 163