The AMD 22.7.1 software drivers tested show a huge performance improvement OpenGL in the benchmarks with Radeon GPU and Ryzen APU. AMD was slightly lower than NVIDIA when it came to performance within the OpenGL API, however, the company has made numerous improvements and the latest driver is a testament to their hard work. Readers have now posted a series of benchmarks showing impressive improvements in overall performance that actually outperform the +92% figure that AMD itself posted for Minecraftyesterday.
First we have an AMD result Radeon RX 6900 XT in Unigine Heaven 4.0 which averaged 155.8 FPS with the older drivers, but once the new drivers were installed, the graphics performance increased to 196.2 FPS, a 26% increase. PhazDelta also noted that the OpenGL API performance is now better than the DirectX 11 API within the same benchmark. In DirectX 11 it averaged 244.5 FPS and with OpenGL API averaged 251.7 FPS, a difference of 3%.
Then we have results within the Basemark GPU benchmark using the OpenGL 4.5 API, one test result shows 7759 points with the old and 17814 points with the new drivers on the AMD Radeon RX 6800 graphics card and the other shows 7496 points with the old and 16592 points with the new drivers on the same graphics card and that’s a 2.3x improvement that is just insane.
It’s not just the AMD Radeon GPUs that see a good increase in OpenGL performance, but also the Ryzen APUs that use the RDNA 2 graphics architecture and as noted by video cardzTwitterati Cary Golomb, ran a 10W Ryzen 7 6800U with new software drivers 22.7.1 and achieved a 12% performance improvement.
Source: Lega Nerd
