AMD Announces HYPR-RX
During its “together we advance_gaming” 2022 event, AMD announced HYPR-RX. AMD’s software is advertised as a one-click performance booster that will help you achieve improvements across the board. To create HYPR-RX, AMD redesigned its existing technologies to work together simultaneously. Frank Azor, AMD’s Chief Architect of Gaming Solution & Marketing, said:
HYPR-RX combines AMD’s Radeon Boost, Anti-Lag, Super Resolution, and other technologies. Instead of having to handle each technology separately, you can simply enable HYPR-RX and the software will do the rest. Think of HYPR-RX as an automatic car. Instead of having to worry about switching gears, all you need to do is turn it on.
How HYPR-RX Can Improve Your Gaming Performance
According to AMD, HYPR-RX will increase a system’s frames per second (FPS) while reducing latency, resulting in an overall smoother gaming experience. In Dying Light 2 rendered at 1080p, AMD claims HYPR-RX was able to increase FPS by 85 percent while decreasing latency by one-third.
For AMD users, activating HYPR-RX is as simple as navigating to the Graphics tab in AMD Adrenalin. Once it is released, there will be an option to enable HYPR-RX. Click it and you are done. It’s as simple as that.
However, HYPR-RX is not the holy grail of performance boosts. It is an alternative for users that may be intimidated by or are uninterested in managing AMD’s software themselves.
You can already enable all the features included with HYPR-RX like Radeon Boost, Anti-Lag, and Super Resolution. But this requires some knowledge of what each technology does and manually adjusting sliders can be a time-consuming task.
Furthermore, you cannot currently run AMD’s technologies together. For example, Radeon Chill and Radeon Anti-Lag cannot be enabled at the same time. With HYPR-RX enabled, they can.
Can HYPR-RX Compete With NVIDIA Reflex?
AMD’s HYPR-RX can be seen as a direct competitor to NVIDIA Reflex, which was launched alongside NVIDIA’s 3000 series RTX graphics cards. Similar to HYPR-RX, NVIDIA Reflex uses multiple technologies to improve your gaming experience.
However, as explained in our overview of NVIDIA Reflex, that feature is mostly focused on improving your input latency and system latency. In other words, its purpose is to reduce the time it takes before inputs on a system’s peripherals, like a mouse or keyboard, register on your monitor.
The result is more fluid gameplay, which allows for precision aiming and improved reaction times. This is especially helpful in competitive FPS games like Call of Duty, Valorant, and Fortnite, to name a few. That being said, NVIDIA Reflex isn’t trying to boost your FPS like AMD’s HYPR-RX.
In comparison, activating AMD’s HYPR-RX will improve both your latency and FPS with a single click, killing two birds with one stone. To achieve the same result on an NVIDIA system, you would need to enable a variety of technologies or tinker with system settings.
That’s not to say AMD’s technology is better than NVIDIA’s. After all, HYPR-RX hasn’t even been released yet. According to AMD, HYPR-RX is slated for release in the first half of 2023.
Is HYPR-RX Right for You?
At the end of the day, HYPR-RX and NVIDIA Reflex are different beasts meant for different systems. HYPR-RX will be compatible with AMD graphics cards and NVIDIA Reflex will only work with NVIDIA graphics cards. If you already own an NVIDIA graphics card, HYPR-RX definitely should not be the reason you switch over to team AMD and vice versa.
