Radeon Settings is the successor to the Catalyst Control Center and has been offered since their re-brand of Catalyst to Radeon Software, but only under Windows. I actually was interested in listening to their talk about WattMan, until hearing this is just the OverDrive replacement within the Radeon Settings application. Not only is WattMan about delivering the highest maximum performance when gaming but also about greatest power savings when idling.

WattMan is supposed to offer precise overclocking and allow modifying the GPU at each of its performance states. But isn't Radeon Settings Windows-only? Yes, for now, but they are looking at the possibility of opening up Radeon Settings for Linux users.Įarlier this month I was on a conference call with AMD/RTG representatives as they were talking about this WattMan and the fine-grained controls they will be exposing to enthusiasts for manipulating the GPU voltage, engine clocks, memory clocks, fan speed, etc. Besides the Radeon RX 480 'Polaris' performance numbers no longer being under NDA (see our 12-page Radeon RX 480 Linux review!), also being made public today are the Radeon Software improvements to Radeon Settings around WattMan, the successor to PowerPlay for overclocking/underclocking via the Radeon GUI control panel.

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