

The Navi 22 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 335 mm² and 17,200 million transistors. Additionally, the DirectX 12 Ultimate capability guarantees support for hardware-raytracing, variable-rate shading and more, in upcoming video games. This ensures that all modern games will run on Radeon RX 6700. Built on the 7 nm process, and based on the Navi 22 graphics processor, in its Navi 22 XTL variant, the card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate. To get the latest 22.7.1 Software Drivers from AMD, you can head over to the official driver page here.The Radeon RX 6700 is a graphics card by AMD, launched on June 9th, 2021. These are just a few examples of the OpenGL performance boost coming from the new drivers and if you happen to have noticed some big improvements while running an OpenGL app or game, do share with us in the comments below. The older drivers delivered a max FPS of 31.9 while the newer drivers uplifted the performance to 35.7 FPS, scoring a perfect 900 points in Unigine Heaven 4.0. As spotted by Videocardz, Twitterati Cary Golomb, ran a Ryzen 7 6800U at 10W with the new 22.7.1 Software Drivers and scored a 12% performance uplift. It's not just the AMD Radeon GPUs that are witnessing a good boost in OpenGL performance but so are the Ryzen APUs that utilize RDNA 2 graphics architecture. Some before and after of 22.7.1 at 10w on 6800U.

That's an improvement of 2.3x which is simply insane. One test result shows 7759 points with the older 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. Next up, we have results within the Basemark GPU benchmark which uses the OpenGL 4.5 API.
