AMD's Chill vs. RTSS & In-Engine Limiters / Input Lag Test 

You probably would want the chill option between 60 and 120 for gaming laptops running on battery, as this might save battery power, I would assume.

Chill is a power saving feature first though, which can be used as a fps limiter...

2:30 - The use for the min/max chill is for people who want to save the most of power while at the same time have minimal impact on a non-competitive game. Some people don't care if framerate moves between 60 and 120. Furthermore technically this is the same behaviour if you would set Min to 120 and Max to 120 and then the FPS could also go down by ~20 or more if you are in a heavy CPU or heavy GPU scene on screen. So even if you try to force 120FPS (via RTSS, or via Chill, or via ingame) ... in modern AAA games on high/ultra you won't really have that constant upper limit. So frametime will vary by a few ms... which is not really a problem unless you have Vsync on, then it could be that mouse lag gets introduced (for that you should use AMD Enhanced Sync / NV Fast Sync)

I have the rx 6800s and I consider AMD chill to be the best feature. Without any cap, the card would pull 80-100W of power which will also create lots of heat and make the laptop fans spin fast and loud. But I've set for most game to run at a constant 72 fps ( half of the monitor refresh rate ). This reduced temperatures, now the card operates efficiently at 20W-55W TDP depending on the game played. The fans are really quiet, sometimes they get turn off entirely while gaming. Really happy :D

I think the idea about input varied Chill is to save battery life on laptops, I don't think frametime is the goal

Chill is designed to be a power saving feature rather than just a framerate limiter. They variable frame time is a byproduct of trying to achieve that. I think the idea is that you're supposed to set the minimum to whatever you will acceptably play and the maximum to what you want to achieve and it does its best to use the lowest amount of power to get there - which introduces the difference in frame time. It's trying to determine the least possible amount of effort to generate the image on screen, so the less you move, the lower it decides the framerate has to be. Makes you wonder why they got rid of the actual framerate limiter though.

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Great video. I'm playing Resident Evil Village right now on a RX 6800 with a 165Hz Freesync Premium monitor. Even with the graphics maxed, I get over 200 fps. I wanted it at 160 to enjoy freesync range, but in game only has option for 120 as the highest. Chill works great.

2:00 keep in mind a lot of those features actually require a restart. Maybe not that one, but others do.

I love chill for games other than FPS. Say RPGs or Tactic games. The framerate automatically goes down to the minimum value set while say the AI takes its turn or a dialoge plays out. This saves power and cools down the GPU. While I'm playing however, the framerate is higher and I can enjoy smoother gameplay.

Love the videos man! Could you make a video for Rainbow Six Siege and the implementation of the Vulkan API? It seems to work well for me but I'm wondering if there is any drawbacks from a response time prespective, specifically when capping the the framerate with the dynamic resolution option. Thanks for all the videos, hope you make many more.

I don't even have an AMD GPU but these videos and tests are so well done that it is a pleasure to watch.

Chill min is a good use when playing slow pace single player games that input lag doesn't really matter. RPG games strategy games etc. Another good use of chill is to force the card to boost. Usually for the 5700 series cards.

AMD Chill between min47-max144 is nice if you play single player games for example or games you play with a controller. Even better for freesync users because that most of the time also the freesync range. The game feels still smooth and you use less power, which means less heat (and less costs).

I'm sure you are already working hard to keep up with your consistent uploads, but you are impressively smart and incredibly pleasing to listen to! I realize that you already perform netcode analysis on most notable multiplayer games, but I feel like your channel would blow up in popularity if you managed to rebrand the netcode analysis series and generalize to appeal to more players (rather than just us folks that are more dedicated to the intricate details). The series would need to have a name that makes sense to any gamer hearing it for the first time and it would have to be something catchy that is easy to use in a casual (gaming-related) conversation. Every time a big multiplayer game comes out, every PC gamer out there should be thinking, "I can't wait for Battle(non)sense's ________ on this!" Perhaps drawing inspiration from the legendary TotalBiscuit (RIP) and his "Port Report" series, where you evaluate the major graphical settings available in a game and their impact on fps, but also with a strong consideration for input delay. In these videos you could also do a brief test of the game's in-game fps limiter and whether or not it works well. Being able to reliably reproduce this "report" for every big new game gives any and all gamers a reason to subscribe! You could even keep this separate from your Netcode Analysis series and manage to squeeze out two videos worth of content for every big game. This is all assuming that you have the time, but damn you really deserve to be widely renowned and it blew my mind when I referenced your channel to a couple friends the other day and they didn't know who you were :(

Several reasons to use a variable fps with chill - Power saving. Not just for laptops, but also for desktops if you want a low noise floor. Like when playing single player games, on speaker monitors without having to blast them to drown out the PC jet engine. - Cutscenes. Sometimes cutscenes played at a locked fps will look choppy when at an uncapped fps. So if you set the minimum target to that of the fps of the cutscenes, it looks smoother. - RPG games. When you have games where most of your time you're spending looking at NPC's waffling their exposition dialogue, there is no need to render it at 120fps. 60 or even 30 does fine. And your PC stays nice and cool. - VRR Range. It's a nice tool to set the GPU to match your VRR range, without having to find the FPS you can always maintain in a game. Honestly, I use this feature all the time, even in fps games, and have never struggled with the shifting input delay. Because the faster you move, the higher the fps gets. It's a nice algorithm. Also, the frametime inconsistency is noticable depending on which monitor. Especially VA panels really, REALLY dont like frametime inconsistencies and will start to flicker.

Thank you for your video, everything is perfectly summarized and with results. Efficient, clear and precise 👍. I totally agree with these results after many tests in games and graphs on my average framerate/input lag. 1 / Ingame fps limiter (engine level) : the least input lag but a bit less stable framerate sometimes, best for me. 2 / RTSS fps limiter (cpu level) = Chill AMD fps limiter (gpu level) in terms of input lag and stability if we set chill to the same min and max framerate limit. So, use in priority game fps limiter, least input lag. If it's not good enough (depends on games) or not implanted, you can use RTSS or AMD Chill. If you have a cpu bottleneck prefer use Chill, if you have a gpu bottleneck prefer use RTSS. (if no ingame fps limiter or if ingame limiter is not well implanted) (I have a Freesync monitor) I recommend to limit your fps to -3 to -5 under your screen refresh rate. Example : for a freesync 75hz best use is : ingame limiter to 72, or 70 if you have a bit of tearing sometimes, vsync off.

Dynamic Radeon Chill is mainly for RPGs where there is lots of standing around without much action.

Really cool video as always ! First of all, NVIDIA user here. Maybe NVIDIA cards are more powerful at this time, but I haven't seen AMD drivers UI for many years from now and I think it is really really much user friendly than NVIDIA UI as I can see in this video. I hope NVIDIA will do smth about that. Also, I don't know if it's relative to GSync or just my mind but I tested to stop using RTSS in APEX LEGENDS which is my main game at the moment and use the IN GAME ENGINE FPS LIMITER provided by Source Engine (you can activate it using launch command in ORIGIN). And the feeling despite a theorically better input lag was terrible. Frame times are really unstable and my card doesn't maintain the FPS cap as efficiently as it does using RTSS ! I know that you recommend to switch to In game Engine FPS limiter but it didn't work for me in this specific case !

hi battlenonsense. can you test the scaling options in nvidia cp. do you get less input lag depending on whether you have it set to aspect ratio/fullscreen/no scaling/integer scaling mode set in the 3d manage settings? does overriding the app by checking the box at the bottom of the scaling tab also vary the input delay with each different scaling mode? do you get less input lag scaling on your gpu or display depending on the scaling option? if it matters on different resolutions other than the native of the monitor also with all those scaling settings? do any of these settings confilct or cause more input lag when correlating with the windows settings checking or unchecking the box thats "disabling high dpi scaling behavior" under the properties tab in apps and games we play? lots of questions. sorry so many questions its a relatively big topic to test and cover. i know youre the guy to do it if anyone is, also im sure youre very busy. i figured id at least try to ask. wish i could donate to this cause. me and my buds have been wondering this for YEARS! any help appreciated as i cant find any concrete fact online with those settings in relation to input lag. Battle(non)sense love all your content btw you do the best and most sought after tests out there by far. really getting rid of any false claim and easing peoples minds like myself that are nitpicking the settings to perfection. at least it has for me tons as now i know the real truth behind tons of settings thanks to you. your work is always appreciated.

The in-game limiter consistently had less frametime than the FPS shown (~7ms instead of 8.3ms). With the Chill dynamic FPS, you probably should have tried setting the MIN to 120 (the desired limit) and then the MAX to something higher, giving it the headroom to get frametimes similar to the in-game limiter. The way you used the MIN MAX limits was by setting the MAX to the desired limit. Try setting the MIN to the desired limit instead. Cheers.

so nice to have this video. Hyped for the results

They need to get this as a universal driver framework directly into the game-engine. So that there's no difference anymore.

I just want to make aware that Radeon Chill was ment for saving power, lower temp noise. It works wonderfully on none online settings. Also, there isn't much difference between 8 and 12 MS.

Hey man, I come to tell you something that I discovered today. I don't know why it will be, but deactivating Freesync from AMD Software but leaving it activated in the monitor HUD, completely eliminates the tearing, without frame capping or using vsync, regardless of the frame rate you have. It's pretty weird, but it works for me. I realized this when I completely cleaned my PC, and I forgot to configure AMD Software for gaming. I played PUBG to test quickly and I said "this is very smooth, I must have v-sync activated" when I realized that I did not, I was very confused. I saw that Freesync on AMD was disabled, I activated it to test and the tearing came back.

AMD Anti-Lag vs Chill please test latency)

We get tearing only when GPU produces higher frames than the monitor's refresh rate. Enabling V-Sync will lock the frames produced by GPU, hence getting rid of tearing but you are lock at that rate and if it jumps down you get horrible stutter and you get high latency overall as well. But if you just cap the in game frame rate to that of the monitor you get rid of tearing and even if frames drop below it, they won't be dropped to half. And on top of that if you set the fps cap slightly lower such that average GPU utilisation is around 95% you get significant reduction in latency as well. So what's the use of V-Sync or even G-Sync and Freesync, as you are already getting rid of tearing, having to strictly mantain frame rates(when V-Sync on) and much lower latency with just right frame caping?

Chill was literally created to save a little on power consumption by limiting FPS when nothing happens, it being used as a FPS limiter is technically just a second function that's why it's not perfect yet (it used to be just a toggle on and off option, no sliders). I'm curious for you to review their anti lag option though.

There are many use cases for Chill with variable frame rate. To name a few - kids PCs, keep them running cooler when they are sitting staring at a wall for an hour. Baldur's Gate 3 and other RTS isometric stuff - no need for crazy frame rates when you're watching nothing moving. And lastly, my gaming VM server - keeps the power usage and heat down when you have many GPUs present.

Your videos always contain top quality content with no nonsense or pointless filler. Keep up the great work!

RTSS is great, but for example when I play gta5 by using fivem, I can't use RTSS, that is where amd chill is needed. Thanks for the video, didn't know many things before I started watching you.

Good video and very useful. To summarize, the in-game fps limiter is the best of all. If our game doesn't have one, then we must opt for RTSS or AMD Chill.

This was so helpful, thank you. Time to finally update my AMD driver (it's been many months!)

Chill has 2 values because it dynamically decide your FPS depending on the scenes movement. This really helps to save some power while playing isometric games whose scenes are mostly static. One more thing, I remember reading why Chill doesn't work globally. Options like Radeon Sharpening, Chill and Enhanced Sync were disabled globally (even if one sets them on in the menus) because they can negatively effect desktop behaviour or videos playing fullscreen. Imagine your 60FPS RU-vid video becomes 30 FPS suddenly just because you are not touching to the mouse and the scene is mostly static :) correction: Chill is not apperantly not based from scene action, I knew it that way but could not find any article, so I it looks like it is based on mouse and keyboard input purely.

This video is due for an update with a FRTC comparison.

Thank you for this, this was exactly my question I posted in your nvidia max frame vs rtss video.

The global profile settings work if you don't have a profile for that game. For example, I don't use any game specific profile (I deleted them all) so I use the global for every game.

Chill is mostly best for laptops so that you don't waste battery where there isn't a lot going on in game, but then when the action picks up, so will your FPS. It tries to give you the best in both worlds with saving power when little is happening and increasing your framerate when a lot is happening. It's also good for reducing heat as your GPU will do less work when very little is happening in game.

Apex Legends ingame frame limiter causes very bad frametimes resulting in tearing and terrible spikes even within the hz range of the monitor. Without gsync/freesync both rtss and chill works very well with super stable frametimes.

that C9 in Overwatch at the end there was nice.

This video is misleading. The way RTSS operates is by blocking the CPU from submitting a new frame to the GPU until a specified time interval is reached (so with a limit of 60 fps, RTSS will make the CPU wait ~16.67ms since the previous frame was submitted to the GPU to deliver a new frame). This is a very accurate method but it introduces a tiny ammount of input lag and motion judder, since what determines what is displayed in a frame is the data that is presented to the CPU, not when this data is submitted to the GPU for being rendered. In other words, the CPU creates a new frame, but RTSS delays the submission of this frame to the GPU. The way Afterburner and other overlay monitoring software calculate frame times is by measuring the delta time between GPU submissions, that's why they show a perfect flat line when using RTSS, but it's not a good representation of frame pacing. The optimal method to measure frame times is the way that software like OCAT, FrameView and CapFrameX do it. These programs show you detailed data of every single frame they capture, and the thing that interest us the most is the delta time between the start of consecutive frames (the frames being presented to the CPU). From what I can gather, RTSS is not very accurate at presenting new frames to the CPU, albeit it can improve some badly optimized games. Interestingly, Scanline Sync (a RTSS feature) is the most accurate method I've discovered, but it doesn't work well with all games and it introduces problems of its own. In order to achieve the smoothest motion possible, you should use VSYNC if you have a fixed refresh rate monitor and in-game limiters if you have a G-Sync/Freesync monitor. I encourage anyone who reads this to test it by their own.

Nice data. Is this still true today with the current drivers?

Thanks for the video. PS some in-game limiters are broken, for instance "outer worlds", you have to use external limiters.

Nice work chris! Very time consuming work you've done for us

coud you test the input latency impact of radeon enhanced sync, super resolution and radeon boost and gpu scaling please? great content! radeon chill also uses less cpu resources than rtss, and rtss have a heavy impact in some games like hyper scape for example where chill works flalessly.

What if you set the max even higher? Would it then hit 120 when you start moving? Theoretically, you could set the max all the way up with min being 60, then set the in game limit to the refresh rate of monitor. So I guess what I’m asking is, if you set a higher max, will it try to make a larger jump in frames

the overlay where you mentioned that the tearing in the video was due to using a capture card got my interest... I would love to see a video about different screen capture methods. How are software and hardware capture methods different? Do I have to sacrifice my gaming experience to get the best capture? How does my gaming refresh rate affect the capture quality? Can I use a variable refresh rate monitor but still get a good capture at 60fps? What's the best method overall in your opinion?

As always, a lot o valuable information on the video! Congratulations! I want to sugest for you to do netcode analysis on non fps games there are popular too, like League Of Legends. I think it would be very appealing to more people

New gray background at graphs looks nice.

Hi Chris, With Nvidia Now just released, can you please do one of your excellent analysis of Nvidia Now vs Stadia vs Pc comparisons and analysis? That would be extremely interesting. Also testing the streaming services on different devices like tv, android, laptop etc. would be interesting. In fps nothing will beet a high hz gaming monitor and strong pc, but the viability and playability in different setups would be most interesting. Looking forward to you excellent work in the future. You are a blessing to us geek-gamers

20*2*3=120 clips. wow u'r crazy xD BIG THANK YOU FOR ALL!!!!)))

Radeon Chill is meant to be used with FreeSync, and the benefit is MUCH lower power consumption. I have my range set to 85-140FPS on a 144Hz screen. I don't notice a lack of smoothness unless I drop below 80FPS so the 85FPS floor is perfect. This can reduce average power consumption by 20-50% depending on the game. If I play Civilization VI my 6800XT doesn't even turn on the fans and I save a LOT of power vs a 140FPS frame limit. I often see power consumption of 120-180 watts while gaming with Chill and an undervolt, without Chill I'm always above 200 watts. That's a lot of power saved and less heat output while still gaming at 85FPS or higher. And the best thing is.. I don't notice it. It's very consistent in its inconsistency if that makes sense. I use it in shooters all the time and honestly, above 85FPS, there's no noticeable input lag anyway, and due to the way Chill works I don't even notice the variable frametimes. And I know what that feels like, if a game just runs like crap and your FPS is all over the place I feel it, but since Chill has some logic behind it and it ramps up/down according to what happens on the screen, I don't get the feeling of inconsistent frametimes. It works for global settings now btw. Sure you could argue I could set custom FPS limits per game (85 for Civilization, 140 for shooters etc) but I can't be bothered with that, and Chill is always more power efficient with less heat output. Despite being a high-sensitivity player even in shooters I still save quite a bit of power and I just don't notice it. It's important that you set it up correctly though. The minimum framerate should be a number where you still perceive a smooth game with FreeSync (in my case above 80FPS so I set the minimum to 85) and the maximum framerate should be slightly below your monitor's refresh rate (140FPS for a 144Hz screen) so FreeSync is always active. This also means you will never need V-sync again.

Ingame limiter have a better input lag, but frames are very inconsistent. The input lag on FPS cap on driver is 1ms more than software level in game option. But much better cap system most of times.

We need someone to do this lag test for VR headsets.

Radeon chill is by far the best feature the AMD Drivers have E: for single player games that I mostly play, I have never had any issues whatsoever with inconsistent frame times and input delay. This should be only a problem with competitive gaming I suppose

Battle(non)sense The purpose of Chill originally was to save power in scenes where you do not need a stable frame rate/times. The prime example given by AMD was WoW. Where they experimented with Framerates in between 31 and 60 FPS as, WoW is not a title which really needs more than 60 FPS, but they claim that the difference in WoW between 30 and 60 is not really noticable. That is the only possible scenario that comes to mind for me.

How bad or good idea is using both Chill and ingame limiter at the same time? Does this increase input lag regardless or only prevail the one with lower input lag? My question comes from the thought of using chill for lower power consumption/temp and stable frametimes and in conjunction the in-game limiter giving me the lower input lag.

спасибо, это лучший разбор этой темы, который я видел. более того это единственный действительно хороший уникальный материал по этой теме. очень благодарен поскольку давно искал подобный материал. могу помочь только лайком и комментарием, очень надеюсь, что это поможет тебе в продвижении видео, и людям в его поиске. еще раз большое спасибо! sorry for Russian, I speak English poorly. that's why I look your video with auto-translation of subtitles.

chill sometimes breaks in some games when you stand still or dont move the mouse like it goes over the cap, i've been using frtc for simply frame capping and its amazing

Thank you so much this is exactly what i was asking for

Do you also need to enable AMD enhanced vsync with AMD chill when gaming on a 60hz 4k TV screen? Can you stack those options?

Hello my Friend, would be awesome if you could test if there are any Latency Differences when turning Antialiasing on or off combined with the AMD Sharpening Filter 20% vs 50% vs 100% I am pretty sure there is more Latency in Apex Legends though the GPU Usage is not even hitting 80% all the time with capped FPS. I can FEEL the Latency gains :) and well it is another Video for you to proove the "Things" and the "Myths" :) Keep it up, good work, watched everything !

How about with "anti-lag" on? you didn't mention it. I like to see when anti-lag is on with only in-game fps limiter on without chill and with chill on or RTSS. does the anti-lag feature lowers their input lag.

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For slow pace games it is super nice I used it in surviving mars as sometimes i get static waiting for some stuff

2:40 the only reason I can think of to have it inconsistent is because you have a drastic overclock and your card gets hot. So, in moments when not much is going on you want your card to "chill" and when you have alot of action going on you want you fps to be high as possible so you are playing at your best. The being said, in this example the FPS does not go to the max when things are going on. Also, there would more than likely be a delay from when you enter a hectic situation until the FPS finally jumps up to say 140 fps from say 90. Even though it would probably be with in a few milliseconds. In a FPS shooter Milliseconds matter. Which is why the input lag even though minimal is enough to stop me from using it. Because I want every advantage I can afford.

you forgot to test 1 more setting: amd FRTC(frame rate target control) + Radeon Anti lag as anti lag can b set on in combination with frame rate target control in AMD global graphics settings 😃I am now wandering what effect would that have

RTSS was causing my system to crash since I upgraded to a 5700 XT. And some games simply crash on launch, like League of Legends, if it's running. There may be some issues with the enhanced sync and freesync that is causing the glitches with RTSS, but not sure.

Hello, Chris! As You may know the most popular game of the January on Twitch was Escape From Tarkov. I've seen both of Your previous videos about shocking netcode of this game. So, time has passed, the game is extremely popular, don't You feel interested in checking what has changed?

Thanks for this video! Really helped me

AMD also has a "Frame rate target control" which just caps the FPS. Unfortunately I don't think you can set it per game basis, only in global "Settings" -> "Graphics" -> "Advanced". Wonder if that would work better than Chill feature. Also before this video I've always believed that RTSS had superior frame limiter and scanline sync. Idk just something I've read somewhere. Guess I will use the ingame options now.

hey, i know the Quake Champions videos weren't super popular but would you consider going back to that game one more time? would love to see how that evolved over the years since

Hi wanted to ask when you use RTSS is it default frame limiter or is it scanline frame limiter, latter is said not to add aditional imput delay.

To save power and minimize noise. Playing stretgey games or slow paced games that don't need super high framerates.

The timing is perfect thank you i needed this

I get CPU bottleneck with the i5 6600k paired with the rx 570 and this causes rendering & lagging issues in certain e sport games, so chill helps a lot, only downside is slightly reduced average fps but this is unnoticeable to me.

Chill doesn't work properly for me when I set the min and max values to be the same. I get terribly inconsistent frametimes with it. When I use the real FRTC setting from 2019 drivers I get very consistent frametimes. A good amount of people also have this issue and are sticking with the old drivers because the newer ones do not have FRTC.

As far as I know, Chill is not meant for fast shooter games. It is a different type of limiter, that tries to reach the FPS target by downclocking the GPU. Instead of rendering with full speed...high Boost and high voltage(inefficient)... followed by a break until the target Frametime is reached......Chill tires to adjust the GPU, so it hits the FPS target, but without the high voltages(more efficient). And the upper limit is not meant to be reached....that is the same function as normal limiters, stoping the card from high FPS when there is no load. The lower limit is the target without user input...as soon as there is user input, the GPU does max boost at first and then reduces clocks to reach FPS approximately 10-20 FPS above then the lower limit. I guess, that by setting min and max, too close, or at the same value, you kind of disabled Chill....and tested FRTC. I like Chill for slower games like Tomb Raider or RPGs....I set it to 55 and I get about 70 FPS in motion....and the upper limit to 100.....it saves energy....and I don't need the last bit of responsiveness from these games.

Really useful video. Thanks!

Please make a video about cpu versus gpu usage in games. My hunch is that most games are badly optimized when it comes to cpu usage

Radeon Chill only works if you play the game if you are in a transition like game loading menu or cinematics framerate is way over what you set it. I noticed it in Kingdom Come and eFootbal PES 2020.

What about if you try to set the in game fps limiter to say 120 hz and set Chill to 121/121.

As others have already stated, you misinterpreted the purpose of Radeon Chill. It's purpose, as the name implies, is to reduce the power consumption, temperatures, and fan noise generated for applications where that is sensitive, like laptops, or for games where you don't really care about input lag/frametimes, like turn based games or MMOs. When AdoredTV first showcased it, he did so with WoW; When I play RuneScape, I can't be bothered what my input lag (or as you rightly call it 'button to pixel lag') is as long as it's lower than my ping+game latency, which is pretty much guaranteed. RuneScape in particular already has a framerate limiter, and also a background framerate limiter, but it's useful for games like turn based games, trading card games, or narrative driven games like walking simulators.

Speaking out of real experience, I am using a 2200G 8gb ram no dGPU, enable radeon antilag and if you have a game with inengine variable resolution like apex or Titanfall, put it at 60 fps. And the result is night and day with stock performance, so fluid

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please compare DX12 input lag to DX11on some games, particularly 'bad' ones that actually have poorer fps than DX11 renderer. Considering some games capped at 60fps can have considerably less input lag than uncapped at ~90fps I wouldnt be surprised if even the poorer performing DX12 implementations still ended up with less input lag than the DX11 renderer.

Hi Criss. On the question why you would want to have inconsistent input lag. Im not talking specifically about amd chill feature. When its consistent it stays at lower value than the best your system can achieve. While the best input delay is not consistent and happens rarely you still can benefit from it in certain situations. For example when you shoot at longer range and there is not much happening around you to stress the system. So you have highest possible FPS, lowest input lag, your actions are registered sooner and you see enemy movements earlier. Snipers are good example. Competitive gamers dont care too much about smooth gameplay, consistency is good but also means its not the lowest possible input lag. Id say if you can achive or control bit of both is the best scensrio. If you play close to the server and have a connection advantage this is irrelevant though since internet connection is the biggest bottleneck in real time games.

Very informative , thank you :)

Strategy and low-paced RPGs can benefit hugely from chill to lower power consumption and thermals for the GPU. Fast paced sims or FPS games need low latency, so there chill is bad to apply.

What happens if i choose Radeon Anti lag with Radeon chill

Thanks a lot for doing this one.

Thank you for this awesome video @Battle(non)sense but please i have a question, i play with a bad internet connexion from bad ISP 8mb down 1mb up, witch mode is better for gaming Online : ADSL2+ OR GDMT ! and i have lower PING With GDMT

I have a 240hz g-sync monitor but only get around 100-120 fps in game. What is the optimal competitive settings in my case? Would you recommend lowering my monitors native refresh rate to match my fps?

Fallout 3 and New Vegas is what I need this for cause past 60fps it breaks/speeds up

I completely disagree with the frame time variation not impacting gameplay much- stutter is FAR harder to compensate for than the slightly longer input latency that comes with RTSS. With that said I don't want you to misunderstand- I am very appreciative of the testing you do. :)

I don't know if you are just dense, but with 60/120 min/max settings, the frame time changed in sync with mouse and keyboard input, so in the end the final Input Lag, delay, whatever would be the same as 120/120 min/max settings (if a tad bit larger, but let's be honest only top

Hey there. Now there seem to be another option in adrenaline software called framerate target which works with antilag. Wonder if its any faster

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imo chill is good for any game other than fps

Hello Chris, Yeah, very bad video. I've used Chill for quiet some time so let me give you some context. Chill is meant to be a power-saving feature, not a constant fps thingy. The use case for it would be if you're i.e. waiting for a raid to start and you're basically just standing around, texting or maybe checking someone's gear your GPU doesn't need 200-300 Watts for that. So it renders less frames ergo less power draw (maybe 20-40W). When the raid starts you can turn it off by pressing F11( it also makes a sound so you know it's turned on). A few sidenotes If you want to see the higher fps limit see with chill, increase your mouse movement FRTC is meant for 2D so games like tropico don't render 1k fps whilst loading. Some features in the radeon settings are limited to certain APIs so it will not work in some games. It's not a bug. IMO you should take this video down, read the documentation and then review it.