AMD Radeon Chill specs, features, reviews: proven to improve performance, responsiveness and power consumption without sacrificing game quality

AMD held their Radeon ReLive event last week and announced some regular updates for their drivers. They also launched a vital platform update called Radeon Chill, which improves the performance of games, aside from several bug fixes.

Radeon Chill significantly improves the users' gaming experience through a boost of frame rate per second (FPS), done in the most manageable of ways. Theoretically, the new update is able to regularize the frame rates at actual time, based on what is happening in the game.

For instance, when players need to have their game paused by simply getting away from the keyboard, by pressing the alt+tab combination, or by checking out their inventory of some sort, their graphics processing unit (GPU) would normally render the highest frame rate regardless of how the game is being used.

Radeon Chill is designed to regulate the FPS so that the power consumption will also be controlled. AMD stated that the feature can conserve power by as much as 31 percent when turned on. Furthermore, the temperature of the hardware is also reduced by 13 percent.

In an article by Digital Trends, the Radeon Chill can be calculated by checking out the average frame rate, but in milliseconds. When the time frame increases, it means that the graphics card can have a rest for a longer time between rendered frames.

Tech Report was able to run some tests and saw how Radeon Chill was able to adjust the time frames. The result is not just focused on power consumption; the user responsiveness is said to have improved as well. The publication noted that Radeon Chill was able to achieve temperature control and less fan noise while the game's graphical quality is kept at its best.

So far, the reviews about AMD's Radeon Chill has been positive and it objectively proves that the update has significant improvements, based on the actual time frames.