Radeon relive shows excellent performance and lives up to shadowplay

The new AMD Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition graphics drivers have arrived loaded with important new features for users of Radeon GPUs, one of them is Radeon ReLive, which is an excellent recording and streaming tool for our games that seeks to rival Nvidia ShadowPlay.

Radeon ReLive - AMD's new burning tool

Radeon ReLive is a very complete tool that will do all the functions that most gamers can expect from it: video recording, streaming, instant replays and screenshots.

Once in-game we find several on-screen accesses for ReLive with the following options:

• To ReLive jousts. Instant replay. Save the last minutes of our game. You can configure the time that the recording will last as well as the framerate, the resolution and the type of codec to use. Video recording. It will allow you to choose multiple details such as video and audio bitrate and recording resolution. These options will vary depending on the video card you are using.

• Stream to Twitch, YouTube and other services. Screenshot.

Video recording works really well, tests done with Overwatch, H1Z1 King of the Kill, Battlefield 1 and World of Warcraft show excellent performance that hardly causes any loss in system performance, the average is estimated at 3-4% in case of using a Radeon RX 480 together with an Intel Core i7 6700K processor. With these characteristics there is no doubt that we are facing a formidable rival for Nvidia ShadowPlay.

Radeon Chill

The new AMD Polaris architecture has meant a significant improvement in energy efficiency and heat generation for the manufacturer, despite this, there is still a significant difference with Nvidia and its Pascal-based cards. The new Radeon Chill technology has the mission of closing the existing gap in efficiency between both manufacturers, it is a more advanced implementation of Frame Rate Target Control.

Radeon Chill is deactivated by default and it must be the user who activates it for its operation, its mission is to reduce the use of the GPU when possible to save on energy consumption and reduce the heat generated. The app tracks keyboard and mouse usage, and as soon as it detects longer-than-normal inactivity, it reduces framerate in motionless scenes. When recovering the movement, the framerate returns to rise in a very fluid and transparent way to the player.

AMD claims that in this way you can reduce the power consumption of the GPU by up to 31% and a reduction in the graphics core temperature of up to 13ºC. This also makes the fan work much more relaxed for greater silence. Hopefully, the best results will be obtained in games with little movement such as e-sports. The behavior of Radeon Chill is very configurable and we can adjust the minimum and maximum allowed framerate values.