AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition for Radeon GPUs just got it biggest update in years

Last week AMD launched its first RDNA 4 GPUs with the release of the new Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT - two cards that have received universally positive reviews thanks to their performance, improvements in key areas like ray-tracing and AI, and pricing. RDNA 4's debut also saw the release of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.3.1 - the most significant Radeon driver release in years.

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Hardware-wise, it supports a wide range of new GPUs and Ryzen CPUs with integrated Radeon graphics. For RDNA 4 early adopters, driver-level support for the latest and most impressive AMD Fidelity FX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) upscaling is finally a worthy alternative to NVIDIA's DLSS. Exclusive to RDNA 4 and the Radeon RX 9000 Series, FSR 4 is available in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.3.1, which will override FSR in games with built-in AMD FSR 3.1 support to the new AI version.

AMD's driver-based Frame Generation, which is supported by several generations of RDNA graphics, has also been updated. AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2.1 promises improved image quality and reduced ghosting for a smoother experience.

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AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition has added some new AI features for RDNA 4 owners that take advantage of the powerful new AI hardware in the Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT. AMD Chat is an offline GPU-powered AI chatbot and assistant that can analyze documents, generate images, and even answer questions related to Radeon software and hardware.AMD Image Inspector is a very cool addition as it leverages AI by taking screenshots to provide AMD's hardware team data to address potential issues with games.

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AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.3.1 also adds a brand-new AMD Install Manager for installing and updating various drivers and components, boost AI performance in several applications, and even add new FragPunk and Split Fiction game support. Head here to download the latest driver, and check out the full release notes below.

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.3.1 Release Notes

New Product Support

• AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
• AMD Radeon RX 9070
• AMD Radeon RX 7650 GRE
• AMD Ryzen Al Max+ 395
• AMD Ryzen AI 5 PRO 340 (AMD Radeon 840M)
• AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350 (AMD Radeon 860M)
• AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 (AMD Radeon 840M)
• AMD Ryzen Al 7 350 (AMD Radeon 860M)
• AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX with AMD Radeon Graphics
• AMD Ryzen 9 9850HX with AMD Radeon Graphics
• AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D with AMD Radeon Graphics
• AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D with AMD Radeon Graphics

AMD Fidelity FX Super Resolution 4 (AMD FSR 4)

• Support is exclusively on AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series graphics cards.
• AMD FSR 4 features a new upgrade toggle in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition that automatically upgrades supported games that have built-in AMD FSR 3.1 support to use the new ML-based AMD FSR 4 upscaling algorithm.
• AMD FSR 4 will be available for over 30 games on Radeon RX 9070 Series Graphics Cards.

AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2.1

• Improved frame generation image quality with reduced ghosting and better temporal tracking.
• Support for AMD Radeon RX 6000, 7000, 9070 series graphics cards and AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series processors.

AI Enhanced Features in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition

Support is exclusively on AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series graphics cards.

AMD Chat

• AMD Chat is a GPU-accelerated, local offline chatbot with text and image generation capabilities.
• AMD Chat can answer common questions about a user's AMD hardware and enable key features in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition.

AMD Image Inspector

• AMD Image Inspector leverages AI to help AMD accelerate game quality improvements by capturing text and image diagnostic data.

AMD Install Manager

• AMD Install Manager is a new application that easily manages your AMD specific software installations.
• AMD Install Manager supports the installation of our new AMD Chat and the latest AMD Graphics and Chipset drivers.
• Users now have an option to "Automatically keep AMD Software up to date", allowing the AMD Install Manager to update their installed drivers and software on-the-fly.

AMD Radeon Image Sharpening 2

• Support is exclusively on AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series graphics cards.
• Now updated to provide stronger, more responsive sharpening in more use cases.
• AMD Radeon Image Sharpening 2 can now apply sharpening to games, videos or across the entire desktop.

New Game Support

• FragPunk
• Split Fiction

AMD ROCm on WSL for AMD Radeon RX 7000 Series

Official support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) enables users with supported hardware to run workloads with AMD ROCm software on a Windows system, eliminating the need for dual boot set ups.

The following has been added to WSL 2:

• Official support for Llama3 8B (via vLLM) and Stable Diffusion 3 models.
• Support for Hugging Face transformers.
• Support for Ubuntu 24.04.

AI Performance Improvements on AMD Radeon RX 7000 Series

Performance improvements to the following use cases:

• Up to 70% improvement on Adobe Lightroom AI enhance detail.
• Up to 13% improvement on Adobe Lightroom Denoise.
• Up to 40% improvement with Topaz Photo AI subtest.
• Up to 10% improvement on DaVinci resolve AI cases.

Developer Updates

• New AMD machine-readable GPU Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs) specifications updated to support AMD RDNA 4 and RDNA 3.5 architecture graphics cards.
• New open-source AMD Advanced Interactive Streaming (AIS) SDK release, designed from the ground up to transform streaming from passive viewing into an immersive experience and AMD Advanced Media Framework (AMF) SDK updates.
• AMD Radeon Developer Tool Suite (RDTS) update with support for AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics cards coming soon. The RDTS includes the recently released Driver Experiments tool that enables low-level control over the behavior of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition for developers.

Expanded HYPR-RX Support

HYPR-Tune support allows HYPR-RX to enable in-game technologies like AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution and AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2.

Support has been added to automatically configure AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution with frame generation in:

• Farming Simulator 25
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
• Silent Hill 2 

Expanded Vulkan Extension Support

• VK_EXT_depth_clamp_control

Fixed Issues and Improvements

• HEVC encoding may not work as expected while using OBS Studio with Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting.
• Intermittent driver timeout or crash may be observed while playing Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370.)
• Lower than expected performance may be observed in Delta Force on Radeon RX 7000 series graphics products.
• Intermittent stutter may be observed while playing Marvel Rivals when AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 frame generation is enabled.

Known Issues

• Intermittent crash of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition may be observed while playing Marvel's Spider-Man 2 or Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart with AMD Image Inspector enabled. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to disable AMD Image Inspector as a temporary workaround.
• Lower than expected performance may be observed when using YouTube on the Microsoft Edge web browser immediately after a driver install. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to restart Microsoft Edge and relaunch YouTube as a temporary workaround.
• 3rd party tools that rely on our ADL SDK for detecting ROPs count will incorrectly report 64 ROPs, and we are looking to address this in a driver update post launch.
• Incorrect gamma is exhibited while playing Counter-Strike 2 and using MSAA x8 on Radeon RX 9070 series graphics products.
• AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition may not accurately report AMD FSR 4 enablement for Marvel's Spider-Man 2.
• Lower than expected performance may be observed while playing Assetto Corsa Competizione on Radeon RX 9000 series graphics products.
• Intermittent application crash may be observed in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle when settings are set to "Very Ultra" quality and Path Tracing is enabled. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to use the default Ray Tracing settings as a temporary workaround.
• After using the AMD Cleanup Utility for Windows, the AMD Bug Report Tool may appear intermittently during a new driver install on AMD Ryzen 7000 and above series processors paired with AMD Graphics Products.
• After completing a driver upgrade on certain laptops, users may experience intermittent failures for the integrated camera to start. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to use the AMD Cleanup Utility for Windows and use our previous recommended driver.