AMD has finally showcased its own take on NVIDIA’s DLSS technology with the FidelityFX Super Resolution technology. AMD demoed the FidelityFX Super Resolution technology for its Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards at Computex 2021 and it is a direct competitor to NVIDIA’s DLSS technology.
The FSR technology was demoed by AMD in Godfall which is a first-party AMD title optimized around their RDNA 2 architecture. NVIDIA got a head start in this tech race when it first released the DLSS 1.0 back in 2018 along with the RTX 2000 series graphics cards.
But DLSS 1.0 has a rough time and while it boosted frame rates, it came at a cost of images looking blurry compared to native resolution. However, all this changed when NVIDIA introduced DLSS 2.0 which boosted performance while keeping the same image quality as the native resolution.
And now, AMD has released its own take on this technology through the FidelityFX Super Resolution technology. It is a direct competitor to NVIDIA’s DLSS 2.0/2.1 technology and from the demo, it looks quite promising.
FSR is compatible with AMD Radeon GPUs starting Polaris and up to RDNA 2. The company is also supporting NVIDIA Pascal, Turing, and Ampere GPUs. For the demo, AMD used Godfall for the live demonstration of FSR and had the title running at a 4K native resolution on the EPIC preset and raytracing enabled. Below shows the performance difference FSR disabled its several modes enabled on the RX 6800 XT:
- Native 4K Resolution – 49 FPS
- FSR Ultra Mode – 78 FPS
- FSR Quality Mode – 99 FPS
- FSR Balanced Mode – 120 FPS
- FSR Performance Mode – 150 FPS
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The performance increase in the different modes of FSR is quite noticeable. Ultra on a Radeon RX 6800 XT is up to 60% faster while performance mode is over 3 times faster which is insane. The AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution technology will be officially releasing on the 22nd of June and will be supported by 10 studios across various engines.
AMD also confirmed the release of Zen 4 Ryzen CPUs in 2022 along with the reveal of the next-generation 3D stacking design for its chiplet architecture-based CPUs along with Ryzen 7 5700G and Ryzen 5 5600G APUs are coming to the DIY segment this August.
