Last year, AMD launched its own super-sampling technology, FidelityFX Super Resolution, or FSR for short, which AMD hopes will be a pioneer in the future against NVIDIA's DLSS technology. At the press conference, FSR can increase the frame rate by at least 30% in the game, and even directly double the frame rate of the game at the highest level.
Compared with NVIDIA's DLSS, the biggest advantage of FSR is that DLSS must be in the RTX 20 series and above graphics card to open, and FSR has strong compatibility, even in the AMD demonstration, even NVIDIA graphics cards and nuclear graphics can also use FSR technology normally, exaggeration to say that FSR can adapt to almost all computers.
Recently, according to the developer of the monitoring tool CapFrameX, he has privately seen the demonstration clip of AMD FSR 2.0 technology and is very impressed.
AMD also announced that it will introduce the next generation of game graphics scaling technology at the GDC 2022 Global Game Developers Conference on March 23.
The developers of CapFrameX said that FSR 2.0 uses temporal upscaling algorithms, which is very different from the current FSR spatial scaling algorithm, but moves closer to NVIDIA's DLSS and will combine optimized AA anti-aliasing.
It is said that the performance and picture quality of FSR 2.0 are quite powerful, and AMD claims to be even stronger than the native picture.
He also mentioned that FSR 2.0, unlike XeSS and DLSS, does not require AI acceleration, which means that the technology can be used on more and more widely used graphics cards, even those that are older, and is expected to be supported by all vendors in the future, but did not specifically mention which GPU architectures are supported. However, it should be noted that it is precisely because ai acceleration support is not required, so there is a certain gap between the current quality of the technology and the DLSS in the picture processing.
FSR 2.0 is expected to wait at least until the RDNA3 architecture arrives before it is officially released. Based on currently known information, RDNA3 is scheduled to be released in the third or fourth quarter. It is worth mentioning that since there is no requirement for AI acceleration, the technology may support ordinary shader cores, or it may support intel XeSS (DP4a)-like instructions.