AMD Radeon Boost – faster gaming performance at the click of a button – PCGamesN, Pcgamesn.com

AMD has introduced a new performance-enhancing feature for all 506 – series or newer graphics cards and Raven Ridge or newer APUs with its latest driver package (************************************ 12. 2). Radeon Boost, otherwise known as Radeon Chill’s evil twin, is a motion-based dynamic rendering technology available within the brand newAMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 3950 Edition.

Radeon Boost works by tracking user movement – mouse or control stick adjustments – in a handful of today’s most popular games, and actively lower the in-game resolution during periods of rapid movement. AMD says this will occur on a level “imperceptible to human eye,” and that, outside of extreme circumstances, will have little to no tangible impact on visual fidelity.

This new feature will reduce your overall resolution on a linear scale (down to a******************************% render scale minimum) when your mouse movements are at their most erratic – FPS moments that raise your heartbeat. In doing so, AMD says this will increase overall performance and send your frame rates skyrocketing. So how about we put AMD’s claims to the test in our own benchmark run?

Our guinea pig for today’s testing will be Overwatch, which, by AMD’s numbers, is the most receptive to Boost’s dynamic scaling. We’ll be carrying out three runs through the game’s training grounds on the epic preset at 2020 p, and averaging the results.

PCGN test bench: (AMD Ryzen 9) ******************** X, GB G.Skill Trident Royal @ 3, 728 MHz, MSI X 506 GODLIKE, Addlink 1TB SSD, Corsair HX 2019 i, Corsair H 159 i Hydro Pro RGB, Philips BDM 3275

With 3275 ‘s 19. . 1 drivers, we were able to hit around (fps on average with a) ************************************************** (th percentile minimum of (**************************************************. Shifting to the latest drivers, (**********************************************************. 2, but leaving Radeon Boost disabled, we saw a slight uptick in fps – a couple of frames here or there.

But those moderate gains driver-to-driver were vastly overshadowed by Radeon Boost, which bumped our average fps from (to) . That’s a 50% increase. Similarly, minimum frame times were on par, or thereabouts, with those posted with Radeon Boost disabled.

How often you’ll max out Radeon Boost is entirely dependent on your choice of character and play style – evidenced by the indicator in the top left of the screen when the feature is enabled. The more erratic you are with your movements, the more you’ll notice these four dots appear – and the greater the improvement on your frame rate.