AMD Teams Up With Powder, AI-Powered Video Software For Gamers
Originally launched in 2020, Powder lets gamers record and share their best moments. Now, it’s partnered with AMD and will soon be available to run on all AMD Ryzen AI NPUs (Neural Processing Units). It’s currently available on PC for free.
Powder uses AI to find and highlight the pivotal moments in gameplay for a variety of top titles, including Fortnite, League of Legends and Valorant. The Powder app can analyze existing footage or record gameplay itself, so all players have to worry about is enjoying themselves.
“Powder delivers seamless highlight capture and real-time automontages, all without impacting your gameplay,” the company’s website said. There’s also a paid version, Powder Pro, that delivers advanced features such as “4K recording and 4K exports.”
How Does It Actually Work?
Magic! Just kidding. It’s thanks to cold, hard science. Powder is trained by over 35 AI models to recognize pivotal moments from games, and players’ responses. It then uses this information to generate relevant clips from recorded gameplay, saving hours of manual editing time.
Whether it’s a Twitch stream, YouTube, Kick or another Video On Demand service, Powder can analyze the content and highlight core moments in just a few clicks. And all without impacting game performance, too.
AMD Partnership And AI Speed
Powder is now optimized to run smoothly with AMD XDNA NPUs, AMD Radeon graphics, and AMD RDNA architecture. Plus, gamers who pick up an OMEN or Victus laptop will find Powder preloaded.
A benchmark test conducted by AMD in December 2024, using an OMEN 16 and Ryzen AI 5 340 processor, revealed that Powder could analyze 90 minutes of Fortnite gameplay and generate relevant clips around 94% faster than without using an NPU.
Streamlined Content
Powder, both the free and paid versions, includes screen recording, AI highlights and editing, and content management. This latter feature is covered by an intuitive hub, which stores and neatly categorizes everything recorded by or fed into Powder.
This streamlined process makes it easier for content creators to manage and share highlights, and even catch things they might not have noticed. As such, it’s already proved popular with noted Twitch streamers, including Luki, who said: “It’s like having a personal editor who knows exactly what to clip. It’s amazing how it captures moments that I would have missed otherwise.”
Whether players get a personal best in a game, share a laugh with co-op buddies, or pull off a snazzy move, Powder can capture it.
