AMD’s Project ReSX is improving the performance and latency of popular gaming titles

In today’s GPU market it is common for manufacturers to release game-specific optimisations for popular releases, working with game developers to provide the highest levels of performance and the best gaming experience that they can.

With the release of Radeon Software Crimson Edition 17.7.2, AMD started to take input latency more seriously, optimising titles to reduce the amount of time it took for inputs to be seen on screen, making games more responsive without increasing the title’s framerate. AMD’s best improvement at the time was a 31% reduction in input latency in Tom Clancy’s The Division, allowing the game to run a lot smoother on Radeon hardware. 

Alongside their standard driver initiatives, AMD has been working on what they call Project ReSX, AMD’s Radeon eSports Experience. This project aims to improve the performance of popular titles with driver-level fixes, tweaks and optimisations, targeting specific use cases whenever possible to enhance gameplay.   

This process includes interaction with developers, which means that AMD will offer to help optimise their game engine or game code either locally, at AMD, or on-site with the game’s developers. At this time it is unknown how long this process takes or how many developers have or plan to take AMD up on their offer. 

In the slide below AMD details some of the fruits of their labour, which includes an 11% performance boost in PUBG and a 99th percentile framerate boost of 9%. In Overwatch, AMD reports a 3% performance boost and a 4% reduction on click to response time, with the company also reporting a 6% improvement in DOTA 2, with a 7% improvement in their 99th percentile framerate performance and an 8% increase in their click to response time.