Unigine Superposition Extreme – 0.009% Improvement.

Similar to Firestrike, improvements were seen again, although these were not as strong in terms of comparative test results. With the difference wasn’t massive, in Firestrike terms it was certainly a notable gap. In the Firestrike test, there was a definite improvement utilising the newer Adrenalin drivers.

Unigine Superposition (Extreme & 4K Optimized).Īll games were tested at 1080p, 1440p and also in 4K resolution.įinally, the comparative drivers we will be using will be the Crimson ReLive v17.4.2 VS the Adrenalin V18.8.2.

3DMark Firestrike (Firestrike, Firestrike Extreme, Firestrike Ultra).

To test the performance, we used the following software

Kingston KC1000 NMVe SSD (480GB capacity).

Intel i7 8800k Processor (Overclocked to 5GHz).

AMD Sapphire Pulse RX 570 GPU (8GB VRAM).

From there, we will compare the results to see if the latest driver has had any notable effect on the overall performance. To conduct this test, we will run benchmarking software via specific programs and games with the launch-date driver and the most up-to-date version. We would like to thank Sapphire for providing us with the graphics card to conduct these tests with!

Well, we at eTeknix put this to the test by comparing launch drivers for the Sapphire AMD Radeon Pulse RX 570 GPU against the latest driver update! It’s always great to get a bit of extra performance for free and graphics card update drivers certainly present themselves as being in that category. Despite the regularity of these (and they are fairly regular), you are sometimes left to wonder exactly what you are benefiting from. Yes, graphics card driver updates are one of the most common bits of maintenance you’ll ever have to do on your PC. The chances are that if you were to buy a graphics card the drivers it was supplied with would likely be out of date before you even installed them on your system.

Does Updating Your Graphics Card Driver Increase Performance?

Update the graphics card driver