Radeon Software Driver Increases Performance by 21% in Guardians of the Galaxy, by 45% in Age of Empires IV

The latest graphics drivers from AMD improve game performance in Guardians of the Galaxy by as much as 21% at 4K Ultra. These figures were obtained using the flagship Navi 2x graphics cards, namely the Radeon RX 6800 XT and 6900 XT on Adrenalin 21. (Ambien) 10.3 (compared to 21.10.2). An even larger performance boost can be seen in Age of Empires IV where the Radeon RX 6800 XT is faster by 45% with the same driver.

You can read the entire update log below:

Support For

• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy™
  • Up to 21% increase in performance in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy™ @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.10.3 on the 16 GB Radeon™ RX 6900 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.10.2.
  • Up to 21% increase in performance in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy™ @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.10.3 on the 16 GB Radeon™ RX 6800 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.10.2.
• Riders Republic™
• Age of Empires™ IV
  • Up to 45% increase in performance in Age of Empires™ IV @ 4K Max Settings, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.10.3 on the 16 GB Radeon™ RX 6800 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.10.2.
• Doom® Eternal:
  • Update 6.66

Fixed Issues

• In Radeon™ Software, the CPU Tuning feature may be missing for some users with AMD Processors such as Ryzen™ 9 5950X Processor.
• Some users may experience elevated disk space consumption by the Multimedia Athena Dumps folder.
• While playing a game, some users may experience a black screen flicker if they have multiple displays connected and they attempt to switch between open windows (via Alt + Tab shortcut).
• Battlefield™ V may crash during gameplay on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6600 Graphics.
• Image corruption may be observed on some characters when Radeon™ Boost is enabled while playing Cyberpunk 2077® on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6700 XT Graphics.