Radeon · Capture is solved · Cutting is the question

AMD clipping software,
from the driver up.

AMD clipping software starts with something you already have: Instant Replay in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition, which keeps a rolling buffer and saves it on a hotkey. OBS runs on a Radeon too. The gap on AMD is the second job, cutting a long recording into postable clips, and most of the tools that do it either run in a browser or, like ours, were built around an NVIDIA card. This page is the honest map, our own limits included.

START WITH THE DRIVER ↓ DOES CUTBENCH RUN ON AMD

The CutBench app: a long gameplay session ranked into short vertical clips with hooks, captions and hashtags, ready to post

01 · Capture

Clipping on AMD: the buffer is already installed.

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition ships with Instant Replay, and it is the same idea as the NVIDIA feature of the same name. Open the overlay with Alt+R, go to the Record & Stream tab, switch Instant Replay on, and set how far back a save reaches. The default save key is Ctrl+Shift+S, Ctrl+Shift+R starts a full recording, and the files land in a folder under Videos. The encode runs on the card's media block, so the cost to your frame rate is small. Nothing about capture on AMD needs a purchase.

Adrenalin Instant Replay. Free with the driver, encodes on the card, saves on a hotkey. The default for anyone on a Radeon, and the one to try before installing anything.
OBS Studio with the AMD encoder. Free and open source. Its Replay Buffer does the same job with more control over bitrate and format, and on a current Radeon it can encode H.264, HEVC and, on RDNA 3 cards, AV1. It does not start itself, so remember to start the buffer each session.
Xbox Game Bar. Already in Windows, works on any GPU, Win+Alt+G saves the last stretch. The thin option, but it costs nothing and needs no driver feature.
Medal and Outplayed. Both free to install, both capture on AMD, and Outplayed auto-saves on in-game events so you do not need the hotkey. The whole capture side is compared in our clipping software roundup.

The hotkeys and folders for every one of these, side by side with the NVIDIA and Windows equivalents, are on how to clip on PC.

02 · Cutting

The second job is where AMD gets thin.

Capture saves the moment you noticed. Cutting is the other job: taking a long recording and deciding which minute is worth posting, reframing it to 9:16 and adding captions. Most tools that do this were built in one of two ways, and neither was built around a Radeon.

Browser tools. Eklipse, Opus Clip, StreamLadder and similar do the work on their own servers, so your GPU does not matter at all. This is the honest default recommendation for a cutting tool on AMD. The trade is that the session uploads, a 3-hour recording is several gigabytes going up before anything starts, and the price is a subscription that is often metered in minutes. Which one fits which footage is on the roundup.
Local tools built on CUDA. Anything that runs the analysis on your own machine was, in practice, written against NVIDIA's compute stack. CutBench is one of those, and the next section says exactly what that means on your card rather than leaving you to find out after paying.
A video editor. DaVinci Resolve and the rest run fine on AMD and give total control. They also give you the whole job by hand, which is the problem people come to this page trying to escape.

03 · Our own tool, on your card

Does CutBench run on AMD? Yes, slowly, and below spec.

The supported requirement is an NVIDIA GPU with 6 GB of VRAM and CUDA. That is what the listing says and what we test against. On a Radeon there is no CUDA, so the app does not use the graphics card at all: the whole analysis falls back to the processor. It does not refuse to run, and it does not crash. It finishes. It just takes several times longer than it would on the NVIDIA card it was built for.

Put numbers on it. On an RTX 3060 class card a 3-hour session takes roughly 2 to 5 hours. On an AMD system the same session runs on the CPU and you should plan for it to take a multiple of that, an overnight run rather than an afternoon one, with the exact figure depending on how many cores you have. A large backlog of recordings can take days to work through. One buyer on a Radeon laptop ran it for twelve hours, saw a fraction of a very large queue, and left a negative review. They were right to be annoyed, because nothing had told them this before they paid. This page is that warning.

What you get at the end is the same output as on NVIDIA: ranked vertical clips with captions, nothing uploaded, no subscription. So the honest advice is narrower than "yes" or "no". If you have a fast processor, a small number of sessions, and you are happy to start it at night and read the list in the morning, it works. If you have a weak CPU or a large backlog, it will feel broken, and a browser tool is the better buy.

Do not take our word for either case. The free demo runs the identical pass on your own footage on your own machine, with a watermark on the exports. Run it on one session, time it, and decide from the number rather than from this page.

04 · Which one

Start from what you are trying to do.

Save the last thirty seconds when something happens. Adrenalin Instant Replay. It is already there and it is free.
More control over the recording. OBS with the AMD encoder, Replay Buffer on.
Turn stream VODs into vertical clips without a strong PC. A browser tool. Eklipse if the source is your VOD library, Opus Clip if the footage has a face and a voice in it.
Cut long local recordings with nothing uploaded, and you can wait. CutBench, tested first with the free demo, with the timing above taken seriously.
Cut long local recordings and you cannot wait. Not us, not on this card. We would rather say that here than after you have paid.

05 · Straight answers

AMD clipping software FAQ.

What is the best clipping software for AMD?

For capture, the Instant Replay already in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition, or OBS Studio with the AMD encoder. Both are free and encode on the card. For cutting long recordings into postable clips, browser tools such as Eklipse and Opus Clip run on their servers and do not care what GPU you have.

How do I clip on an AMD GPU?

Open the Adrenalin overlay with Alt+R, switch Instant Replay on in the Record and Stream tab, set the duration, and press Ctrl+Shift+S after the moment. The file lands in a folder under Videos. Ctrl+Shift+R records a full session instead.

Does CutBench work on AMD?

It runs, but below its supported spec. The requirement is an NVIDIA GPU with 6 GB of VRAM and CUDA. Without CUDA the whole analysis runs on the processor and takes several times longer than on the NVIDIA card it was built for. It produces the same clips at the end. Test it with the free demo and time one session before buying.

How much slower is CutBench on AMD?

A 3-hour session takes roughly 2 to 5 hours on an RTX 3060 class NVIDIA card. On an AMD system it runs on the CPU and takes a multiple of that, depending on core count. Plan for overnight rather than same-day, and for days on a large backlog.

Is there a local clipping tool that uses the AMD GPU for analysis?

Not among the tools still on sale that we compare. Powder ran its analysis locally and had a build tuned for AMD hardware, and it shut down in 2025. The surviving local moment-finding tools, ours included, were written against NVIDIA's compute stack. AMD's card is used for encoding by every capture tool here, but not for the analysis step of any cutting tool we know of.

Does OBS work with AMD for clipping?

Yes. OBS Studio supports the AMD encoder for H.264 and HEVC, and AV1 on RDNA 3 cards. Enable Replay Buffer under Settings, Output, set a Save Replay hotkey under Hotkeys, and start the buffer each session.

AMD clipping software,from the driver up.