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hey everyone i'm joined by scott watson from AMD and scott you have some updates when we talking about today yeah we're filming this before before the embargo list but you'll see this when news goes live and I think we'll the driver be available on the day that this news goes live should be yes okay so what we've got then some updates to overclocking on AMD video cards that should actually pretty interesting for a lot of you and then some some other tools like you have these three advisors you call them now and we're gonna go over those today and show off what all of the new software and the Radeon Suite does before that this video is brought to you by Thermaltake score p3 case the core p3 is one of the most unique cases on the market it can serve as an open-air standing chassis a test bench in vertical or horizontal orientation or as a wall-mounted showcase pc the core p3 now comes with a five millimeter thick tempered glass panel for its slide but keeps the front top and back open 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of in the past it was a simpler control also for Polaris cards that have zero fan speed option you can actually turn that some of you want more partner cards yep yeah so previously if you haven't used an AMD card in a while you've never used wot man the as I remember the temperature and fan dial was basically a minimum and a maximum right right so the update now is there's actually a curve where you can set a temperature and then rpm curve it's pretty useful and especially for people who are very focused on silence or something like that other than that the one that I'm most interested in was the overclocking changes so there's a little bit of change we haven't gotten to play with it today but when this video goes live we'll probably have something up and that was memory timing tuning so I mean should we how do you want to cover that you've got a couple options there for tightening the timings we think yeah okay so what does that do now well it gives you the option of going in and making some changes in tweaking and then seeing how the performance looks without having to go through the rigmarole of modifying biases and things like that that people have done in the past right so this gives people an extra measure of control so they have that and we also have some auto functions right so you can auto overclock the GPU where it will actually run a little test and very conservatively but you know automatically set the GPU speed higher you can auto overclock the memory so you can hit a button and get a higher memory clock as well and then there's an auto undervolt right as well so when are you when are you gonna use AI that can beat me I don't know we need to take your brain yeah and figure out how we can put it into some AI jar right okay so we get we get your brain in the jar and get some developers and yeah we'll figure out makes it together so like any auto overclocking feature we've shown these before in the past and if you do a true man versus machine typically for now the human contender will will win but the goal isn't really to be better than someone who's a try-hard right the goal is to be a decent foundation for someone who actually doesn't care to do any of that right so we'll play with that haven't worked with it today but we'll play around with it see how well it does I think my current understanding is some of it might use a like a lookup table or something like that for volt frequency dialing or brightening and then are there any other changes overclocked inside we should go over before yeah so Vega cards we have all the DPM states exposed instead of just the topless yes you get more control over that and then another thing is you know right now wat man has been in radian settings for quite a while and we are actually extending where you can go and do it overclocking if you're in a game you can now bring up Radeon overlay and you get control right there in the game over all those settings in addition to that you can use the AMD link app on a phone or tablet iOS or Android and if you can get in and actually control overclocking that way too so we're trying to give people lots of choices how they go and testings so that when you're at the overclocking competition you can use your phone and yes next time you see a livestream of me doing another rip J stream if I'm a I pull out my phone holding it kind of down here and the scores are going up and you know why it is so that's kind of cool what's also cool speaking of cheating in competitions is a game advisor so a game advisor has is it game advisor or is it just relive it might just be relived where you can do the the instant replay now really yeah so relive now we covered it in the past and overall liked it at the time we reviewed it better than shadow play and as I understand it relive still does not require an email to use that's right which well we won't talk about that but doesn't require all these so it's got an instant replay feature now is the idea just I mean you capture the footage and then you can play it back as an overlay on top of the game right right so as you're playing you die spectacularly you want to see you know the little giblets bouncing around again you hit the button and you get a replay or 15-second cam yes in game you don't have kill cam right so use that how you will advantage so that's kind of just into but what we can't show here today so you've got game advisor you have upgrade advisor yeah and is it settings advisors yeah so let's just let's show a game advisor first sure okay and these are sort of preface this by saying these are sort of higher level functions so you know if you're really into settings tuning then may not apply to you but for people who find this kind of stuff confusing because they're new to it it could be useful there right so that's the idea what the advisors is to make it easy for folks who maybe are any experience with tweaking or setting things up themselves and there's a lot of that with new people coming into the space from fortnight and things like that too so yeah so you've launched Assassin's Creed I have attempted to do so it's coming up yeah so you've got Assassin's Creed open and what are we we're gonna work with first for game advisor all right so we're gonna bring it up by hitting alt R to bring up the overlay and then we click on game advisor and it says basically what this tool is gonna do which is gonna watch as you play the game in monitor performance through your system so we hit start monitoring and then we just play the game and it's sort of watching your performance as you play so this the idea here is on your system is you really play a game as you're doing things we're gonna look at how how its performing so it's very hyperlocal very tailored to your system we'll give you a readout then of you know how you doing right so we've got FPS on the top right and frame time we have a separate video on that entirely if you're curious about what that means and I think now we're just gonna watch scott run around on a horse for 50 seconds to the next step so we're pushing the end of the test period here and you can see we're about done counting down okay so when this finish is says your performance report is now ready so we just pop back into the overlay go to game advisor and you can actually get a look at our performance here as we were playing so we average forty seven point nine FPS which is 95th percentile from time to 24 milliseconds and you can see the frame time plot all the time with a few spikes and then by percentile and actually you can grab a piece of it and zoom in if you want to see just a piece of mm-hmm the okay and so for frame times we've got frame interval the period on the Left axis right now.just time on the x-axis yeah cool so what do you do from here this says it has five recommendations okay it says your your systems performance in this game could be improved so we really are pushing the system a little bit hard so this this comes up with some recommendations for things you could do to improve the performance of this game on this system and it's simple stuff you know decrease the image quality preset from alterna to high or turn down advanced rendering options like anti-aliasing any of the occlusion or reduce the render scale things like that and once you're done you test again so you can go into the game you can go back and you play for changes play again and insert really what this is is the Andy Driver team wanted an excuse to play games for 90 seconds at a time oh we've always got excuses to play games but but this is a good one this is a good one and you know if your performance is actually very high this thing will say hey here are some things you could do to improve image quality as well okay it's sort of helping people balance between those two things and try and find a sweet spot right so what's what's the next tool you have then okay well we got to get out of the game here and I can show you the next one so the next tool is a related but different thing called Radeon settings advisor so you just go into Radeon settings you hit this little icon appear and it will show you based on your system's capabilities some things that you maybe don't have enabled that you maybe ought to have enabled in order to get the best gaming experience so the example here we don't have enhanced sync and able with a Meridian Cho and I have a very virtual super resolution we don't have free sync enabled right so let's say this this thing is gonna recommend you turn all these on you get a better experience let's say that we decided we don't want to turn chil'en because we don't really want to save power we always want to go as fast as we possibly could I think chill is great but say that's that's what I would say right so so then you can just hit apply and it will go and it will very quickly okay implement all those things at once and then you're good and then the last one is upgrades right yeah upgrade advisor and this one is is kind of neat this will show you and you can see right here you've got some games installed on your system we know what they are and we'll show you how your GPU and CPU match up to the minimum and required specs for those games now in this case we've got a laptop with the Vega in it so it's actually gonna meet all the recommended specs of sharing games but but you can see but if it if it doesn't if you're running maybe a 270 or something r7 270 you might see what is a yellow mark for you meet minimum but not recommended right and then red is you don't meet minimum right and you can actually there's a little drop down here you can look at the different options well it only has one right now cuz they're already in yeah pretty close to the best thing that you can get so there aren't any higher obvious standards right so you've got a yeah CPU drop down as well not just GPU right cool okay so beyond this there are other updates all the software as well and will have either an article or a video talking about some of those and planning to maybe test a few of them like I'm looking forward to really test in the overclock and stuff and seeing what if we see performance differences what kind of performance differences so check back for that content if it's already up we'll put it in the description below otherwise subscribe to make sure you catch it and this guy I mean anything you want to you want to point them towards the driver like what is what does this one called again this is a adrenaline 22:18 edition it's available at a indeed calm wait time you see this yeah so grab it if you got AMD let us know what you think and scott thank you for joining me you bet idiot i will see you all next time you