Here are those AMD RX 6000-series and older GPU drivers you've been waiting on

pcgamer.com:

There's a new driver download ready and waiting on the AMD website(opens in new tab), and it includes support for RX 6000-series and older graphics cards after a while of being left out in the cold.

AMD has focused its efforts on developing drivers for its latest and greatest RX 7900 XTX(opens in new tab) and XT cards since their release in early December, 2022. As a result, older graphics cards have missed out on some day-one game drivers and features(opens in new tab) since introduced with AMD's Adrenalin package.

That changes today with the release of the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Driver 23.2.1, which supports both RX 7000-series and RX 6000-series and older graphics cards. Its main focus is game support for Forspoken and Dead Space, promising up to a 7% performance increase in the former.

But the main thrust of performance enhancements come for a wide range of games on older graphics cards. There's too many to note individually, so I'll drop the release notes(opens in new tab) list below.

There's also new Vulkan extension support in the new driver, which adds support for the promising new Vulkan Video decode capability, and an upgraded encoder(opens in new tab) on RX 6000-series GPUs. This encoder can be set in popular streaming app OBS Studio in the streaming or recording settings tabs. It's worth using as GPU acceleration will help lift the load off your CPU while streaming and recording and allow it to get on with other things, so any improvements to this encoder, the better.

Some of the above was included in the 23.1.2 driver for RX 7000-series graphics cards, but that hasn't been available at times since its sort-of release last month. It's worth downloading this more up-to-date driver either way.

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