Tested: Ryzen Mobile Gets Better Drivers, Finally

So some games perform WORSE after the update, some stay the same... and this is after over a year went by without any updates? AMD still has people not buying their products because of previous driver issues - how long will this snafu keep people from buying their laptops?

Sometimes you have to wonder if AMD has id1ot savants working for them... so good in some areas, and SO poor in others...
 
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Damn AMD, we want to support you, we want a reasonably competent alternative, this is the worst case scenario since the Ryzen revival. We want GPUs that compete at the highest end, and you are only shooting yourselves on the foot when you do things like these.

No wonder we don't find high end laptops with Ryzen in them, in part, it's the OEMs fault, but you too.
 
AMD will never change. ATi was completely incompatible with AMD, and short of firing everyone that was under ATi or trained with someone under ATi, that culture will never change.

ATi's drivers have always been complete garbage. The company just couldnt ever properly support their often superior hardware. AMD is no different. And I say this as someone with a Vega 64 and a ryzen 1700, this is just AMD's normal mode of operation, and it will take many more years of lisa su type leadership to fix them, and until then, AMD will not be taken seriously in mobile or professional situations.
 
I bought a Ryzen mobile Lenovo yoga and promptly returned it a week later. I never got as far as to find out how awful the driver situation was as I returned the thing due to having the most utter garbage battery life I had ever seen in my entire life, it was even worse than my colleagues giant gaming laptop with a GTX980m. It would struggle to even last an hour waiting in the departure lounge let alone an entire flight. A 7% improvement is welcome but it’s going to take a lot more than to make these things useable away from a socket for more than an hour or so.

It’s a shame because a more powerful GPU in a little laptop like that would have been awesome for some light gaming next time I have a long layover somewhere or a quiet night in a hotel. I’m hoping Intel can deliver a better solution soon, I hear their new integrated GPU is set to beat out the Ryzen mobile solutions.

Oh also, using FPS to measure game performance in Civ VI is generally misleading. Turn completion time is both more accurate and more informative to the reader of how well the game performs - as a lifelong Civ player I don’t care if the FPS is a bit low so long as I don’t have to wait about for 10 mins between turns at end game. Gamers nexus did a bit in a video some months ago demonstrating that if the turn completion time was higher then so was the average frame rate as it resulted in the game hanging whilst the turn processed and the FPS spiking whilst this occurred.
 
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I have this exact same computer but I saw a huge improvement in playability for Fortnite when I upgraded to these drivers. Maybe the difference is because I'm not playing at 1080. I'm playing at 800. Play is much smoother, and I was able to bump up a few of the quality settings. Also, Apex legends improved. Before it was quite choppy but now I can play with no stuttering.
 
Thanks for clarifying why I'll never get an AMD powered laptop. Simply pathetic effort on the driver front.
 
Amd finally realized after concerted efforts by us mobile ryzen owners that passing the driver buck to oems was a really bad idea. The new drivers are a real improvement. They should have been available from day one. However the audio driver is still a year old, I get constant sound dropouts when playing Dolby Atmos to my Atmos AV receiver. My lowly Surface Go with Intel Display audio has no such problem. My feeling is still too little too late. I will not be burned by ever buying another AMD product and I still will advise anyone to stay away from this company......
 
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So some games perform WORSE after the update, some stay the same... and this is after over a year went by without any updates? AMD still has people not buying their products because of previous driver issues - how long will this snafu keep people from buying their laptops?
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This is a big overstatement. There was only a minor performance decrease in one game.
As for Metro LL, it plays a lot better now. It's all about the minimum frame rates, in case you didn't know. There's no point at all to having fast frames if the next moment has stutters... And they improved that part.
 
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I have one of these laptops (Acer Nitro 5 Ryzen 2500U 560x) and I can tell you that overall the whole machine runs MUCH BETTER with the new drivers.
There were all sorts of issues with the graphics switching on the new versions of windows which required the hacking of newer drivers especially for the 560x.
With these new drivers everything is butter smooth as it was when I first bought the laptop.

I think that the real story is kinda missed with this testing as most people aren't buying Ryzen mobile laptops to really play games with. The 560x hybrid machines are the real "budget gaming" laptops that needed these drivers.
If you just have a Ryzen mobile laptop (like my dad) he is doing business work and will never see a difference in the new drivers vs old drivers as the most he does in terms of video is youtube.
Otherwise he does spreadsheets, CRM's and email / web browsing.
 
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