INVESTIGATION: Poor Performance & Power Draw Issues Impacting AMD Radeon 6000 - 9000 Series GPUs

  • Do you have SMT (Simultaneous Multithreading) enabled? YES

  • IF YES: Is there an improvement with it disabled? Haven’t tried

  • Which driver version are you using? 25.11.1

  • Do these issues occur only in Darktide? YES

  • Have you confirmed that all redundant GPU drivers have been uninstalled? YES

In my case the culprit was AMD Fluid Motion Frames, Anti-Lag and Enhanced Sync. I disabled FG both in game and in Adrenaline. And disabled the rest in Adrenaline. After that stutters and lags were gone. Looks like They broke FG for AMD at some point. But without FG the game performance is far from ideal. I’ve played many beautiful and hardware demanding games like Hellblade 2, Final Fantasy 16 etc with constant 60 FPS@1080p at high graphical settings without issues though. But this one struggles to do so. My specs are: Ryzen 5700 X3D, 32 Gb RAM, 7900GRE, Win 10.