{"id":1689,"date":"2022-03-17T14:38:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/17\/one-of-the-steam-decks-best-features-just-came-to-an-amd-gpu-near-you\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T14:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:38:19","slug":"one-of-the-steam-decks-best-features-just-came-to-an-amd-gpu-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/17\/one-of-the-steam-decks-best-features-just-came-to-an-amd-gpu-near-you\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the Steam Deck\u2019s best features just came to an AMD GPU near you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/17\/22982473\/amd-radeon-steam-deck-features-super-resolution-fsr-2-0<\/a>
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Valve\u2019s Steam Deck<\/a> has a lot of cool tricks up its sleeves \u2014 but one of them wasn\u2019t exclusive to the gaming handheld PC for long. You know how the Steam Deck can turn on FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling for any game of your choice<\/a>, no need for the game\u2019s developers to formally offer support? As promised<\/a>, AMD just brought that same driver-level version of the framerate-boosting tech to every Radeon RX 5000-series or newer graphics card as \u201cRadeon Super Resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Today, you\u2019ll be able to download the new AMD Adrenalin drivers<\/a>, turn on the in-game overlay with Alt + R, and lower your game\u2019s render resolution to theoretically get a big framerate boost in most games \u2014 at the expense of some quality, of course. (It makes a lot more sense when your GPU isn\u2019t potent enough on its own, which is why the Steam Deck is such a good example<\/a>.) <\/p>\n

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The company isn\u2019t saying exactly<\/em> how<\/em> that\u2019s possible quite yet, but here\u2019s a statement from AMD software product management director Glen Matthews to The Verge<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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While machine learning (ML) is one vehicle to solve a number of problems, it is not a requisite to achieve good quality upscaling and FSR 2.0 does not use ML. Therefore, FSR 2.0 does not require dedicated ML hardware \u2014 so that more gamers can benefit from it.<\/p>\n

FSR 2.0\u2019s temporal upscaling uses previous frame color, depth and motion vectors in the rendering pipeline to create very high-quality upscaled output with optimized anti-aliasing across all image quality presets and output resolutions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cMore details will be available on 3\/23,\u201d adds AMD, hinting that you might want to watch the company\u2019s session on \u201cNext-Generation Image Upscaling for Games\u201d<\/a> at the 2022 Game Developers Conference for more.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m skeptical of FSR 2.0 for two reasons. First, because AMD \u2014 like Nvidia \u2014 is claiming it can deliver better<\/em> than native 4K image quality at the same time it\u2019s offering higher framerate, and even Nvidia\u2019s highest-quality DLSS settings<\/a> haven\u2019t convinced me of that. Second, because AMD only provided a single still scene (not even video) for us to compare today, and motion is one place these techniques can break down.<\/p>\n

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You could try to blow this up, but I\u2019d recommend downloading original images from my links below.<\/em><\/figcaption>Image: AMD<\/cite><\/p>\n

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But AMD\u2019s claims do sound impressive \u2014 the company says Deathloop<\/em> can run at nearly twice the framerate at maximum settings, 101 fps vs. 53 fps \u2014 and so are the actual still images of Deathloop<\/em> that AMD provided today. They\u2019re seriously worth a look. (Download them here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, then try pixel peeping them with Nvidia\u2019s excellent ICAT tool<\/a>.) <\/p>\n

In those still images, FSR 2.0 looks like a world of difference compared to the original FSR \u2014 and I could genuinely see some people preferring the enhanced sharpness of FSR 2.0 mode to a native image. But we won\u2019t know for sure until we see lots of games in motion. Plus, AMD is hinting that it\u2019ll require game developers to integrate FSR 2.0 instead of being a global feature. <\/p>\n

At a time you can\u2019t easily buy a new GPU<\/a>, it\u2019s great to see AMD pushing hard to get more of out of older, weaker ones. Speaking of which: AMD says it\u2019s working to bring the weaker-but global Radeon Super Resolution upscaling technique to its APUs with integrated graphics as well \u2014 with the Ryzen 6000-series processors adding support in the second quarter of this year.<\/p>\n

Update, 9:35AM ET<\/strong><\/em>: AMD does now provide a tiny sliver of FSR 2.0 in action <\/em>in a video here<\/em><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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