By Darren Allan
AMD wants to tempt gamers who play popular esports titles to buy one of its graphics cards, rather than an Nvidia model, by focusing on eking out faster frame rates for games like Overwatch, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) and Dota 2.
AMD’s newest release of the Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition (version 18.3.1) benefits from tweaks which have been cooked up by Project ReSX (Radeon eSports Experience).
In other words, this is work from an internal group at AMD to hone the drivers to better run these eSports titles, and it also involves working directly with the developers of these popular games.
As Engadget spotted, this has resulted in an impressive 11% improvement in the frame rate of PUBG when running at 1080p, which hits almost 70 frames per second (fps) as benchmarked on a PC with an Intel Core i7 7700K CPU and an AMD Radeon RX 580 graphics card with 8GB of video memory.
That frame rate boost is compared to the Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition version 17.12.1, by the way.
The fresh drivers also resulted in 6% better frame rates in Dota 2 which hit almost 96 fps in 4K resolution, and a 3% improvement in Overwatch which …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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