It is clear that in recent years Advanced Micro Devices, better known as AMD, has made great strides with its products. From being in a technical bankruptcy to being able to look your main competitors in the eye. But, AMD with your graphics cards Radeon 7000 have a problem that has not been corrected for months.
We have to say that AMD was several years ahead of Intel in manufacturing modular processors. In the end, the monolithic design used by Intel has proven inefficient and quite useless. Despite initial problems, the company has made huge leaps.
Similar happens with the company’s graphics cards. Since they ditched the ill-fated Vega architecture for dedicated graphics cards, they’ve made huge leaps. RDNA has proven to be a brutal GPU design that is in many ways capable of taking on the NVIDIA RTX.
A problem that has been present for months
Although the design of processors and graphics cards have improved a lot, they still have certain problems. Specifically, the company continues to limp in the drivers section, where they have not yet taken off. Even some solutions that should, like the case of HYPR-X.
A few months ago, one of your controllers was generating bugs in standby power consumption on AMD RX 7000. Specifically, when the graphics card is at rest it has abnormal consumption. It’s not excessive, we’re talking about about 20-30 wattsthat even if it is little, it is a consumption that does not do a real job.
AMD promised to correct this error a long time ago, but to this day it is still present. He Adrenalin driver 23.7.1 WHQL partially corrects the problem. Although it is indicated, it corrects the problem of high consumption with monitors of 4K @ 144 Hz resolution with FreeSyncThis is not entirely correct.
ComputerBase wanted to verify this information. You have measured the consumption of a RX 7900 XTX and there is still an excess of energy consumption. Said abnormal consumption appears when the refresh rate of the monitor is less than 144 Hz in 4K resolution.
We can say that AMD is not actually lying, since they have apparently fixed it for 4K resolution and a refresh rate of 144 Hz or more. The problem is that most monitors of that resolution have lower frequencies. Which generates that users have a higher consumption than they should.
AMD’s software problems continue
One of the company’s unfinished business is offering drivers and tools that work right out of the box. The company works hard to have profits that live up to its products. This is not always easy, especially with the launch of Windows 11.
We must remember that Windows 11 is specially optimized for Intel solutions. This is something that Microsoft itself commented, acknowledging that they had created this operating system for the new architecture of blue processors.
Yes, you should be worried that Windows 12 has a lot of integration with artificial intelligence. Currently, operating system updates are like a kick in the real earrings. We don’t want to imagine what a mess it will be with AI and everything it will touch. Very possibly we will suffer serious performance problems or misconfigurations because “the AI says so”.
