Could a clean driver install improve performance?

[joser1813]

My PC was suffering of some artifacts and crashing (computer restart) in the recent days, the apparent cause was the 20.9.2 amd driver. I found a number of people reporting the same or a similar issue within the last week. I made a post  about it. Anyway, I used DDU to erase the drivers and proceded with a clean install, the issue seems to be gone. I haven't had any crashes while testing with 3D mark Timespy, Timespy Extreme, Forza Horizon 4, Control, Dota 2... What I find interesting is that I got more performance out of no where, I was consistently averaging 72 FPS on the benchmark of Forza Horizon 4 and now, with the exact same setting I get 82 FPS on avg. Control seems to be performing better as well. How is this possible?

[Helpful Tech Witch]

It is possible that updates of drivers ontop of updates of drivers, over and over again made the driver inefficent, and gave you some extra fps.

[Deli]

I updated from 20.4.2 to 20.9.2 last week. Assassin's Creed Odyssey went from 71fps to 76fps. So we see some real improvement from AMD.