… The catch, however, is that AMD has locked these improvements behind RDNA 4-class hardware, specifically the RX 9000 series. Officially, RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 GPUs just don't have the required AI acceleration blocks to run FSR 4 as intended. …
… Ever since its launch, FSR 4, and the subsequent FSR 4.1 suite of upscaling tech have been exclusive to Radeon 9000 GPUs, effectively locking out Radeon 7000 and 6000 GPU users to FSR 3. …
… FSR debate, too. Almost 97% of the games that support upscaling also support DLSS, while the same number for FSR is only 72%. …
… FSR 4.1, and even its base 4.0 improvements, are officially locked to the Radeon RX 9000 series. …
… Meanwhile, if you hadn't bought a new AMD GPU in the past 18 months, you'd be locked out of FSR 4 entirely. Now, thankfully, official FSR 4.1 support is extending all the way down to RX 6000 cards in 2027 . …
… Modern DLSS/FSR and motion reconstruction often match native 4K visually while boosting performance. …
… Related AMD's answer to DLSS arrived half-baked, and now nobody's using FSR Redstone FSR Redstone's second showing has been... unimpressive At 1440p, the 1660 Ti needed FSR to cross the 60fps mark Nothing wrong with helping the other team Plugging the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti into a 1440p 144Hz display,… …
… After years of iteration and evolution of DLSS and FSR, we've finally reached a point where we can stop obsessing over how every frame is produced and whether or not they look good enough. …
… Sure, AMD hasn't been standing still, since Radeon users do have access to both FSR Frame Generation and AFMF AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2. …
… AMD initially kept FSR 4 exclusive to the Radeon RX 9000 series before finally bringing support to RX 7000 cards over a year later, despite many of them being perfectly capable GPUs. …