Does AMD’s Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition Q2 2018 driver improve APU performance?

Yesterday, AMD released their Radeon Software Adrenalin Editon Q2 2018 driver for their Raven Ridge series of desktop APUs, providing their customers with the platform’s first driver update since its release.

There is a lot of fanfare surrounding these low-cost CPUs, providing gamers with strong quad-core CPU performance with the highest performing integrated graphics solutions on the market, combining their Ryzen and Vega CPU/GPU architectures to create a compelling product.    

In our Ryzen/Raven Ridge APU Gaming Review last month we found that AMD’s latest APUs can offer a great gameplay experience on most modern titles, albeit below 1080p in a lot of cases. Our question today is whether or not AMD’s latest drivers will offer gamers a notable performance boost, especially within games which have received day-1 driver optimisations in recent months for AMD/Radeon’s dedicated graphics cards. 

AMD’s APU (CPU + Integrated GPU) drivers have merged with AMD’s main series Radeon Software Adrenalin driver stack theoretically giving Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G users access to a range of new graphics optimisations, giving users a better gaming experience. Will these new drivers increase the performance of AMD APUs?