AMD has been optimizing its Radeon drivers while NVIDIA has been busy with the GeForce RTX 4070 Super launch. The Preview Driver for AMD Fluid Motion Frames 23.40.01.10 improves the driver-based frame generation algorithm and offers a performance boost to RDNA 3 users in specific titles.
| 1080p | December 2023 | January 2024 | Gain |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | 43.2 | 58.3 | +35% |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT | 40.2 | 52.4 | +30% |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE | 32.2 | 41.6 | +29% |
| AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT | 31.9 | 39.0 | +22% |
| 1440p | December 2023 | January 2024 | Gain |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | 35.6 | 45.0 | +26% |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT | 31.9 | 39.9 | +25% |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE | 25.9 | 32.2 | +24% |
| AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT | 24.8 | 29.5 | +19% |
| 4K | December 2023 | January 2024 | Gain |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | 22.6 | 26.2 | +16% |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT | 19.5 | 22.7 | +16% |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE | 15.7 | 18.0 | +15% |
| AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT | 15.4 | 17.1 | +11% |
PCGamesHardware tested Alan Wake 2 (with ray tracing enabled) on the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, 7900 XT, 7900 GRE, and the 7800 XT. The RX 7900 XTX is up to 35% faster in Remedy’s hit title, averaging 58 FPS (up from just 43 FPS) at 1080p. The gains reduce with resolution as the Navi 3x flagship is 26% and 16% faster at 1440p and 4K, respectively.
The Radeon RX 7900 XT gets a 30% uplift at 1080p, averaging 52 FPS (from 40 FPS) at the maximum quality settings with FSR 2 “Quality” mode. The performance uplift at 1440p and 1080p is again lower, ranging from 25% at the former and 16% at the latter.
The Radeon RX 7800 XT averaged 32 FPS at 4K “Ultra,” and now nets 39 FPS, a healthy 22% uplift without any added costs. The framerate uptick at 1440p and 1080p are fairly modest at 19% and 11%, respectively.
Alan Wake 2 punishes the fastest GPUs, even without ray tracing. PCGamesHardware will retest the game on Radeon hardware in the coming days.
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