Radeon RX 500 / Radeon 500X Series Graphics Radeon Desktop Product Family Compatibility:
When installing Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.8.3 for the Windows operating system, the user must be logged on as Administrator, or have Administrator rights to complete the installation of Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 20.8.3. Users of these platforms should contact their system manufacturer for driver support. This driver is not intended for use on AMD Radeon products running in Apple Boot Camp platforms. The Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.8.3 installation package contains the following: Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.8.3 Driver Version 20.20.27.01 (Windows Driver Store Version 7.1001). Users are encouraged to use the new Bug Reporting Tool for any issues they may encounter. AMD will continue to monitor and investigate any new reports of black screen or system hang issues during extended periods of gameplay closely. Some games may exhibit stutter intermittently during gameplay on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products. Modifying the HDMI Scaling slider may cause FPS to become locked to 30. Audio may experience instability when connected through an Audio Video Receiver via HDMI on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products. With HDR enabled, Windows desktop may experience flickering, and performing a task switch while in a game may cause colors to become washed out or over saturated. Performance and power consumption are not impacted by this incorrect reporting. Performance Metrics Overlay and the Performance Tuning tab incorrectly report higher than expected idle clock speeds on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products. Any users who may be experiencing issues with Enhanced Sync enabled should disable it as a temporary workaround. Enhanced Sync may cause a black screen to occur when enabled on some games and system configurations. Brightness flickering may be experienced on some VP9 video content playback through applications or web browsers on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics product system configurations. With Radeon FreeSync enabled on Radeon RX 5000 series system configurations, task switching to another display or application may cause the display to flicker for a few moments. Performance issues may be experienced when playing Horizon Zero Dawn on select Radeon Vega graphics. Project CARS 3 may experience performance issues when the Radeon Software performance metrics overlay is enabled. Project CARS 3 may experience mirror like corruption when using VR during game menus on GCN based Radeon graphics products. YouTube playback may become frozen with Microsoft Edge player and Chrome when played on an extended display on some AMD Ryseries and AMD Ryzen 4000 series APU system configurations. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive may experience intermittent stutter when some applications are running in the background such as third party matchmaking clients or Discord. Radeon Overlay may not be available or may fail to invoke on Hybrid Graphics system configurations when playing Hyper Scape. eFootball PES 2020 may experience an application crash at launch on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products. Surviving Mars may experience an application crash or hang at launch on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products. Enabling HDR on some Radeon FreeSync 2 displays, may intermittently cause the display refresh rate to be forced to the FreeSync ranges minimum refresh rate during gameplay. Mortal Shell may experience a game or application crash when opening the inventory window in game.
VK_GOOGLE_user_type: This extension indicates the driver’s support for shader modules using the SPV_GOOGLE_user_type SPIR-V extension. The number of components returned depends on the number of components present in the selected format.
VK_EXT_image_robustness: This extension adds stricter requirements such that drivers return default RGBA values instead of undefined values for out-of-bounds reads. VK_EXT_private_data: This extension allows applications to store application-defined data in a 64-bit private data slot. This allows applications to reduce the need to recompile and bind pipeline state objects. VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state: This extension adds more dynamic states. the previous driver iteration, Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 edition 20.8.1 Support For Fortnite: Using AMD’s latest driver Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 edition 20.8.3, a Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU offers an average 12% better FPS performance in Fortnite (DX12) on the Epic setting, vs. Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.8.2 Highlights