It seemed that the graphics Radeon RX 7900 XT and XTX It would be a blow to NVIDIA, but the reality is that AMD ended up missing out on more than just an opportunity that many saw as golden. Among the issues revealed in the latest charts from the red giant are power consumption and energy efficiency, aspects the company has tried to improve with version 22.12.2 of its Adrenalin drivers for Windows.

Aside from the introduction of game-specific fixes commonly seen from AMD, NVIDIA, and more recently Intel, what stands out most about the Adrenalin 22.12.2 drivers is the implementation of optimizations around power usage for certain loads. including some games. Of course, AMD didn’t specify any specific scenario.

Information about the efficiency improvement was obtained thanks to the German media ComputerBase, which published some data on the consumption and performance of the launch versions and the December 2022 version of Adrenalin drivers on the Radeon RX 7900 XT and XTX. Power consumption when playing YouTube videos dropped from 71 and 81 watts to 46 and 54. with a video game Running Doom Eternal at 1440p, the RX 7900 XT saw a 34% improvement in efficiency compared to the RX 7900 XTX’s 57%.. In fact, just by looking at the power per watt graph with Doom Eternal, you can see that the efficiency improvement is more than obvious, according to data provided by ComputerBase.

It is important to note that AMD has not yet released a unified driver for its RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 graphics cards, as Adrenalin version 23.1.1 only works with the latest generation of Radeon GPUs (RDNA 3/RX 7900), although according to what they say in ComputerBase, not that they now provide a worthwhile upgrade.

The RX 7900 XT and XTX graphics have more than desirable problems, in addition, there are at least units that were launched with an immature architecture. We’ll see if AMD can make a comeback based on a driver update, which isn’t uncommon to see, but the downside is that when GPUs start to max out, their business cycle is over or about to. , so it always ends up trailing behind NVIDIA.

We take this opportunity to remind you that Adrenalin 22.11.2 WHQL causes problems in RX 6000 (RDNA 2) graphics to the point of completely breaking and rendering them useless, so MuyComputer advises you to avoid using the mentioned radeon driver version.