AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.7.1 - Driver Download and Discussion

Because they run neither 1:1, nor 1:2
1:2 is too penalizing on latencies, and 1:1 is almost impossible to do, as their IOD not THAT different from Zen3 and also based on 7nm iirc.
Atm they run FCLK 2000 or up to 2133 iirc. So their sync to 6000 MT RAM is closer to 2:3, but it is fine even at 4:7 (aka 2000:7000). Gaining bandwith from MT doesn't hit IF bandwith limit, at least not now.

Basically fact that DDR5 standard originally was about 6000MT, AMD first task in designing Zen4 was to remove dependency of MCLK and FCLK. Otherwise it would've been impossible to produce compatible chips with high enough output from wafer. And they did resolve such issue in the end.

Probably they implemented same stuff that modern AMD GPU's have (well except fact that RDNA3 FCLK link is insane on both bandwith and physical size as it is very small). Atm, and you can even check it quite easily, default FCLK for GPU is about 1900-1950 (mine is 1940). And you can make it run at higher frequency. But there is barely any gain from it, even if i get it up to 2100 and even in benchmarks.

 

so what fclk would 7GHz ddr5 run, ideally ?

 

I've seen some comments on overclock.net that say when the fabric and uclk are synced, there is a small improvement in latency, but the bandwidth is lower than if you were to run it at ~2000-2133 , doesn't sound like its that significant though, seems there isn't much point to running memory in the 7gt/s range, might be different for 8-9gt/s, since the uclk starts to approach stock 1:1 speeds (2400mhz), and it looks like with the update 9gt/s+ daily might be possible on some boards if the memory ic's are up to the task, so maybe the situation will change when next generation ddr5 ics hit the market.

 

There isnt any downside running 7ghz on ddr5 it seems no performance degradation. All the test i've seen was with zen4d not zen4 but as soon new bios is out im testing my 6000 1:1 vs 7000 1:2 in specific bandwidth heavy games like spiderman.

 

using the "More Power Tool" you can write the fan settings to the current driver and/or using the settings file from this program using the "Red BIOS Editor" to write to the BIOS

 

5 different packages of 23.7.2 had been compiled. Expect release soon.

P.S. Also few more packages of 23.Q3 for some reason...

 

It's great... but still no FSR 3.0 coming

 

Give them time. Not that FSR 3.0 is mandatory stuff to have. It is good, but imo, native is still thing that you must lean on more.

Also strange, latest PRO driver for my card is 22.Q4... And there are at least 23.Q1 and 23.Q2 that should've been released afterwards

 

I dont even care that much about FSR 3.. its good when it arrives ofc but i would very much appreciate game ready drivers on release day... for example Remnant 2 came out today and no drivers so far... thats what makes me mad about AMD lately... they are totally slacking atm.

 

I played the game with the existing drivers and it runs well without problems. Why do you need a special driver for that game? Do you want AMD to lie to you that there is a special magic driver for that game with some fake improvements? It happens very rarely when there is some real problem with some game and we need a special driver to play it.

 

Not every new game requires new driver, you know.
Otherwise so much energy time and data traffic would've been wasted if new drivers would've been released for any new indie game, for example.

 

There is a driver 23.q1.1. This driver has support for RX 6000 and RX 7000 series graphics cards.

There is a driver 23.q2, but it is only for W7900 and W7800.

 

AMD performs better than nvidia in Remnant 2 without game ready drivers. No reason to be mad.

 

I mean... would i lie?
https://www.amd.com/en/support/grap...d-radeon-rx-6700-series/amd-radeon-rx-6750-xt

 

These are questions for amd, not for me. 23.q1.1 supports rx 6000 series. Just read the pdf file where this support is indicated.

 

And i didn't say that it doesn't exist. Just that for some reason it is not available for my card. As well as (i just checked) for 6700XT and even 6950XT.
Had it even been released?

 

probably just a mistake, the pro driver isn't really supposed to be on the consumer graphics download page anyway.

https://www.amd.com/en/support/prof...-radeon-pro-w6000-series/amd-radeon-pro-w6800
this is the page for the workstation version of rx 6000, and its there.

 

At the beginning, driver 23.q1 was released, which only supported PRO video cards, but amd wrote that they would add support for the RX series in the next release.
Although the opposite was written in the pdf file for 23.q1.

Spoiler

 

It always was available. I still remember that i was able to download 21.Q1 and 22.Q1/2/3 since i bought my card