AMD’s Radeon Chill drops frame rate during light gaming to save battery life
AMD announced today that its Radeon Chill tool, part of the GPU maker’s latest Adrenaline Edition software suite, now supports games based on the Vulcan graphics API as well as games that rely on DirectX 9, 10, 11, and 12.
Radeon Chill, which AMD first released in late 2016 but has updated steadily over time, improves power efficiency in your gaming laptop or PC by dropping your frame rate when it detects lower-than-normal mouse and keyboard inputs. That’s because such a scenario suggests the image displayed on the screen isn’t drastically changing by way of the mouse-controlled in-game camera or keyboard-controlled character movements.
With a so-called dynamic frame rate regulator, as they’re called, the goal is to help the GPU draw…
