In recent years, NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel have been vigorously developing super-resolution scaling technology, which simply means rendering the picture at a lower resolution and then scaling it to a high-resolution output, so as to obtain better image quality and performance at the same time.
NVIDIA has DLSS (Deep Learning Hypersampling), NIS (Screen Scaling) on the NVIDIA side, and XeSS on the Intel side, somewhat similar to DLSS.
AMD first proposed FSR (FidelityFX super-resolution), benchmarking NVIDIA DLSS, and now released RSR (Radeon super-resolution), benchmarking NIS.
AMD claims that FSR is the fastest-available gaming technology in its history, and has supported or will soon support more than 80 games — and of course, NVIDIA DLSS is even better, supporting more than 130 games and apps.
NVIDIA DLSS continues to evolve, and AMD FSR today also announced a new 2.0 release that will become a strong opponent of NVIDIA DLSS 2.x.
Key changes to AMD FSR 2.0:
1. Change from the original spatial scaling algorithm to a (relatively) better time scaling algorithm, and comprehensively optimize the AA anti-aliasing, which is similar to or better than the original game screen quality.
2. In any picture quality grade and resolution level, the picture quality is better than FSR 1.0.
3, do not need specific ML machine learning hardware, such as NVIDIA Tensor core, Intel XMX unit.
4, as long as the game supports, you can get performance improvements on almost any graphics card, not only including AMD's own graphics cards (including RX 6000, RX 5000, RX Vega, RX 400, Ryzen™ APU), but also support NVIDIA, Intel graphics cards.
Of course, whether people use it is another matter.
In terms of performance, AMD took DeathLoop as an example, claiming that the frame rate of the RX 6900 XT was 53FPS when the 4K native resolution, light tracking was turned on, ultra-high image quality, and SAM was turned on, and after turning on RSR 2.0, the frame rate could soar to 101FPS.
In terms of picture quality, AMD compared the different pictures of 4K native, FSR 1.0, FSR 2.0 quality and performance mode when "Death Loop" turned on the light chase, and you can see that FSR 2.0 is significantly better than FRS 1.0 (pay special attention to wall texture), sharper and clearer, and the picture sense is not inferior to the native.
AMD FSR 2.0 technology will be truly available in the second quarter, with more details to be announced at the GDC 2022 Developer Conference later this month.