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AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards owners who have been experiencing a relatively disturbing level of power usage when watching YouTube content will definitely want to grab red team’s latest Adrenalin release if they haven’t already.
As indicated in new benchmarks shared by ComputerBase, it appears that AMD’s newest driver package is helpful in reducing the power consumption of select Radeon RX 6000 Series models when playing back certain types of content on YouTube. One of the bigger differences lies with the playback of 4K 60 FPS content; the Radeon RX 6700 XT seems to benefit from drops of 30 to 18 watts, while Radeon RX 6900 XT users should see drops from 42 to 30 watts. None of these improvements seem to apply when HDR is enabled, however.
Additionally, AMD’s latest Radeon drivers don’t seem to reduce power consumption in instances where...
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