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AMD's DLSS competitor FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is launching this year
AMD plans to launch its FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) upscaling technology, designed to rival NVIDIA's DLSS, later this year.
Yesterday, PCWorld published an extensive YouTube interview with senior AMD Radeon executive Scott Herkelman, who confirmed that AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) upscaling technology is currently in development and slated to launch sometime this year. However, Herkelman also noted that there is still plenty of work left to do.
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FidelityFX Super Resolution is coming along great in our labs, but we want to keep the gaming community open. For FSR to work across the board, game developers need to adopt it. While things are going well, we still have work to do, not just internally, but also with our game developer partners. We want to launch FidelityFX Super Resolution this year. We believe we can pull it off, but we still have a lot of work ahead. We need to make sure the image quality is up to par and that it scales well at different resolutions. That said, our developer partners are happy with what we have so far.
During the interview, Herkelman also confirmed that the official abbreviation for AMD's competitor to NVIDIA DLSS is indeed FSR, not FXSS or FFS.
Additionally, it was mentioned that FSR isn't actually based on machine learning like NVIDIA's DLSS. This is hardly surprising, since RDNA GPUs lack dedicated hardware to accelerate ML calculations. However, Microsoft's DirectML super-resolution implementation doesn't require specialized cores anyway. AMD's decision to save transistor budget where possible is therefore entirely logical.
Right now, there's no word on which specific GPUs will support FidelityFX Super Resolution, nor are there any concrete details regarding its PC launch window.
