Rumor mill: The builders of a bit of frame-capturing software program just lately claimed AMD is about to announce the second era of FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), which might additional enhance picture upscaling in PC video games in comparison with its predecessor. The announcement might come shortly earlier than the corporate’s deliberate GDC speak on upscaling.
The official Twitter account of CapFrameX just lately posted particulars about FSR 2.0, saying AMD will announce it quickly. CapFrameX and VideoCardz declare to have seen inside slides from AMD describing further options it is going to have on high of FSR 1.0, which launched final summer time.
The greatest enchancment is temporal upscaling, which makes use of info from earlier frames to assist upscale new frames from decrease resolutions to greater resolutions. This is already utilized in temporal anti-aliasing in addition to FSR’s rivals, Nvidia’s DLSS and Intel’s upcoming XeSS.
The upgraded FSR could have higher picture high quality than the present model, and in some circumstances can look higher than the native decision it’s upscaling to. When enjoying a recreation in 4K with ray tracing, FSR 2.0 in efficiency mode – which might upscale from 1080p – might virtually double framerates, which sounds just like what DLSS 2.0 has pulled off. If FSR 2.0 is coming, finally we’ll have to attend for benchmarks and comparability screenshots from actual video games with a purpose to make a stable judgement on it.
Like its predecessor, FSR 2.0 received’t use any proprietary machine studying {hardware}, which suggests it in all probability received’t incorporate AI upscaling. DLSS does use ML {hardware} for AI upscaling which is why it requires one among Nvidia’s RTX graphics playing cards. XeSS will use an identical AI approach however will work on a wider vary of {hardware} by way of DP4a instruction. FSR 2.0 will assist {hardware} from each AMD and its rivals.
We already know from AMD’s calendar that it’ll maintain a presentation on picture upscaling on March 23 in the course of the 2022 Game Developers Conference. The firm might reveal FSR 2.0 someday earlier than then.
