AUGUST 2019 PCWorld 69Nvidia’s Ansel tool? Yeah, Radeon Image
Sharpening is nothing like that. While Ansel
applies a sharpening filter to the entire
in-game image, Radeon Image Sharpening
uses algorithms to intelligently sharpen only
the areas that need it, reducing the blurriness
that can pop up when you activate various
anti-aliasing methods or run games at a lower
resolution than your display’s maximum.milliseconds at 60 fps,
the company says.
Not everyone can
even feel a single
frame’s worth of
improvement to input
lag. But in the frantic,
fast-paced world of
competitive esports,
every second matters,
especially in higher-
skilled play.
You can try out
Radeon Anti-Lag by enabling it for specific
games in the Radeon Settings app’s Gaming
tab. You can also turn it on in-game using the
Radeon Overlay. It works with all DirectX 11
games with any Radeon GPU, but the Radeon
RX 5700 and 5700 XT can enable it for DX9
games, too. Don’t enable it universally;
AMD’s reviewers guide warns that due to the
way it works, it has “a minor impact” on
gaming frame rates. It’s
worth using in esports
games where you can
feel the difference in
responsiveness, but it
isn’t recommended for
other genres.
Radeon Image
Sharpening
You know the
Sharpening filter in
Radeon Anti-Lag click-to-response improvements, measured by AMD.