AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution Widening Support for Gamers and Developers
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is a parallel rival to Nvidia Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) is up to be released soon on June 22, 2021. NVIDIA DLSS launched on September 2018 with the releases of RTX 20 Series graphics cards, it has long been a preferred mode of latest gaming technology using Deep Learning to enhance image quality with dedicated AI accelerators called Tensor Cores.
AMD FidelityFx Super Resolution is an open source cross patform technology serviced to offer higher frame rates with high quality resolution gaming experience. However, unlike NVIDIA DLSS, FSR would be improving the overall image quality by upscaling the lower resolution details with an applied sharpening filter.
Better edge detections allows such upscaling of lower resolution feel like a much higher quality. Along with this, AMDs existing Contrast Aware Sharpening (CAS) feature to apply a sharpening filter to the upscaled detailing, provides a large boost to the gaming performance for it being relatively lightweight.
As per the statement noted by Jurjen Katsman, Studio Head, Nixxes -
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution is a performant and easy-to-integrate upscaling solution that Nixxes is happy to provide in their games, to allow for increased performance for players across a wide range of GPUs
Performance Built for Gamers
Supercharged with performance the AMDs FSR allows gamers to enjoy a full scale gaming experience offering an average of 2.4x the performance at 4K in "Performance" mode compatible with a wide range of graphics cards.
Such a capability, challenges the latest technologies of Ray tracing and getting higher framerates on a high-refresh rate monitor. Even supportive of the older graphics cards, FSR broadens its support level for gamers.
At the latest Computex presentation, a preview of FSR running on NVIDIA graphics cards awed the viewers to an extent of improving framerates even on a GeForce® GTX 1060 for latest gaming titles.
A lot of gaming performance issues has been fixed by FSR concluding forth support to over 100 graphics cards and processors. However, as stated by AMD, it would not provide end-user technical or warranty support for FSR enablement on other vendors' graphics cards.
FSR for Developers and Game Engines
Since its announcement, FSR has amazed the gamers as well the developers with the features provided in relative competition against the NVIDIA DLSS. The source code has been made open for the developers, till now with the availability in eight titles.
The open source code for FSR is free under the open source MIT License, to get the documentation and download a new sample showing FSR modes impacting the overall image quality and performance.
Easy to implement it in the game projects, AMD offers an innovative boost to the gaming industry in creating next-generation gaming experiences that can support a wide range of hardwares.
Apart from the developer support, AMD FSR allows Game Engines to harness the power of Super Resolution performance thereby easing out the life of developers with their pre-familiarity to working on these Engines - Unity and Unreal Engine.
Games with FSR Support
Quality balancing performance of AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution adds a greater selling point for the gaming titles as well for upcoming ones.
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Compared to DLSS, AMD FSR providing the wide range of support to older versions of graphics cards as well as unwavering fidelity improvement along with overall gaming performance, bags in greater followers. It seems to have affected the gaming market to a greater extent, enabling more trust for AMD as the fight continues with the better RTX features and DLSS of NVIDIA.
However, when it comes to the context of gamers, could NVIDIA cope up with this competition in delivering performance at lower costs as AMD, lies a question to be answered forth with upcoming launches and price cut, putting an end to the current GPU shortages.