A well known old bug in the windows chipset drivers from AMD has reappeared. And this time it is not limited to the storage drives, but the graphics cards. It has a significant bearing as it would mean that some of your AMD setups would show an unexplained drop in performance of your GPU. And this reappearance shows that the driver defect is still present in the current driver stack.
Silent performance downgrade hits AMD GPUs via chipset driver
The defect in the chipset driver software from AMD is what handles the communication between your CPU, motherboard and peripherals. In the past the bug was limited to solid-state drives. And would cause significant drops in read and write speeds.
Now this software silently downgrades performance for the GPU subsystem. This would result in less than stellar gaming and rendering performance.
AMD states that this is not a complete failure but a silent downgrading of performance. But the systems work, just not at the full potential. This is a recurrence of a known driver defect.
But one that was assumed to be specific to the storage controllers. The bug is impacting the new hardware integration into the windows operating system environment.
We previously reported on the release of the AMD Ryzen Chipset Driver 8.07.16.1035. This was a release that did not fix this specific reoccurring driver defect. Users should be looking out for any performance anomalies in their graphics workloads when on the latest AMD chipset drivers.
And this is an example of persistent software stability issues. For which you require a driver update to fix it.
On the confirmed facts, it's now clear that the chipset driver bug has moved on. And this time from SSD to GPU. And the fix in the form of a patch from AMD to fix this specific GPU related degradation in the current reports is still pending. Users of AMD hardware should know about the possibility of a hit to your performance.
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