Radeon Adrenalin 19.2.2 drivers barely improve AMD Radeon VII performance by 1 percent

The AMD Radeon VII improves less than 1 percent on average with the new Radeon Adrenalin 19.2.2 drivers, in most games.

Two weeks ago, AMD launched its Radeon VII graphics cards, which have numerous problems despite being based on a 7nm manufacturing process. High power consumption, an exorbitant price, poor performance, and absurdly high temperatures make them a bad choice. The folks at TechPowerUp repeated the benchmarks using Adrenalin 19.2.2 Beta, comparing them to the drivers from when the card was released. The improvement is quite minimal, only exceeding 5% in three cases.

The new drivers Adrenalin 19.2.2 hardly improves the performance of the AMD Radeon VII

We have previously seen how the company's graphics cards improved performance somewhat with new drivers. This has happened with the previous RX 400 Series and RX Vega. The problem is that the company is only launching refried which, no matter how polished the drivers are, they do not give more of themselves. We see with the new drivers how the Radeon VII barely improves 0.65% with respect to the previous drivers.

As we already highlighted in the review, this graphics card implements a graphite sheet between the DIE and the heatsink. This sheet improves thermal conductivity, since it is more efficient than conventional thermal pastes. This system has been used due to the thickness of the sheet, to solve the problem of the difference in height after BGA welding. When so many components are welded, it is normal for there to be a deviation of each of the silicons and it would cause some to not make good contact.

However, the Radeon VII is almost 20% more powerful than the RX Vega 64, while it is about 15% slower than the RTX 2080, as well as being very inefficient. It should also be noted that this graphic is a conversion of a graphic from the professional segment, such as the Radeon Instinct MI50 to the gaming segment.