As you know, AMD managed to make a splash with its RX 7000 graphics cards, which were introduced with increased memory capacity and competitive prices. However, new GPUs have been on the agenda with power consumption problems for a while. The recently released Adrenalin 23.12.1 driver provided solutions to these problems.The biggest problem of the AMD Radeon RX7000 series has been solved
For those who missed it, the high power consumption issues were first discovered earlier this year. So much so that the first tests revealed that the graphics cards consumed much more power than expected when running idle. Although this issue was (sort of) fixed in July, it was still insufficient for high refresh rates. Adrenalin 23.12.1 driver, released on December 5, has provided solutions to the current problems.
So much so that reports from Tom’s Hardware show that idle power consumption has dropped significantly. Accordingly, while the RX 7900 series now operates in the 15-17W range, the RX 7800/7700 has 12 to 13W and the RX 7600 has 8W IPD (Idle Power Draw). These are certainly promising compared to what the RX 7800/7700 (27.5-33W) and RX 7600 (17W) had before.Additionally, since high power consumption is mostly related to high refresh rate, lowering the screen to 60Hz reduces power consumption by 30 percent. We should point out that the tests were performed on the Windows desktop completely idle, with the monitor set to 4K and 144Hz.
In addition to power consumption issues, the new driver also offers various improvements such as HAGS (Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling) support, optimizations for new games and HYPR-RX Eco mode.
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