… Whether upscaling has ushered gaming into an era of compromises or opened an avenue of possibility wherein weaker hardware can deliver stronger performance has been a matter of debate, and that's a debate that this experiment does not settle so much as sharpen.
… FSSR 4.1 | Radeon RX 7800 XT + Ryzen 5 7600X | 2160p FSR Performance 1080p internal Avg FPS 1 % Low Latency ms Forza Horizon 6 High + RT 60 fps 55.7 fps 58.2 ms Halo: Campaign Evolved Ultra 68 fps 56 fps 22 ms Regardless, FSR 4.1 on the RX 7800 XT, at FSR Performance delivered impressive image qual… …
… Much like DLSS 4.5, FSR 4 is markedly better than its previous iteration, and the first thing it clearly does is unlock more aggressive presets like FSR Balanced and FSR Performance as genuinely usable settings that still deliver remarkable image quality, all while ensuring performance gains over n… …
… FSR debate, too. Almost 97% of the games that support upscaling also support DLSS, while the same number for FSR is only 72%. …
… So far, community testing of AMD's INT8 implementation suggests that RDNA 2 cards could see a 10–20% performance overhead while using FSR 4 over FSR 3, while RDNA 3 fares a little better. …
… The whole point has always been to reduce loss of quality while improving performance, and while DLSS did take a while to "get good," FSR took longer. Today, FSR Redstone what AMD calls the FSR 4 suite , while technically sharing the same "number" as DLSS 4.5, is simply not up to par. …
… 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,… …
… 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. …
… DLSS 4.5, FSR 4.1, and XeSS v3.0.1, we're living in a time when upscaled graphics are in a league of their own, and in terms of performance to quality ratio, have left native rendering far, far behind. …