The new Radeon Chill feature in Crimson ReLive aims to cool down AMD’s hardware with an assist from software, sort of like a more effective version of AMD’s existing Frame Rate Target Control. Time will tell whether Radeon ReLive winds up being as popular as Nvidia’s vaunted ShadowPlay, but it’s certainly off on the right foot.ĪMD’s new Polaris GPU architecture succeeded in driving the energy and heat levels of graphics cards way, way down in the Radeon RX 400-series versus their predecessors, but Nvidia’s new GeForce GTX 10-series graphics cards still hold the energy-efficiency crown. Always take manufacturer-supplied numbers with a pinch of salt, but that’s impressive. When AMD tested Overwatch, H1Z1 King of the Kill, Battlefield 1, and World of Warcraft-examples of games that are widely streamed-at punishing graphics levels on a system equipped with a Core i7-600K and Radeon RX 480, ReLive’s impact was a mere 3 to 4 percent loss. Fortunately, Radeon ReLive appears to fall into the former category. Video capture utilities are great-unless they send your in-game frame rates plummeting, in which case they’re garbage. Again, you can tweak all sorts of options related to the output. Stream to Twitch, YouTube, or other services.

And yes, you can opt to record the desktop too. The video encoding options available to you depend on which graphics card you’re using. As with instant replay, the ReLive settings (pictured above) let you tweak the details, such as video and audio bitrates and the recording resolution. You can configure how far back Instant Replay saves in the Radeon Settings tool’s ReLive options, along with granular features like the encoding type and frame rate for recordings. Instant replay. Saves the last few minutes of your gameplay.

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