I ran a DLSS 4.5 versus FSR 4 blind test on my own games, and the result wasn't the landslide everyone claims
… The second rig solved the problem that has affected every DLSS versus FSR comparison to date. …
… The second rig solved the problem that has affected every DLSS versus FSR comparison to date. …
… 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… …
… GeForce GTX 1660 Ti + Ryzen 5 3600 | 1080p Graphics Preset Medium High Ultra Native TAA 86 fps 63 fps 45 fps FSR 3.1.5 Quality 91 fps 67 fps 54 fps Thankfully, AMD's FSR 3.1.5 came to save the day here, with its Quality preset pushing the game comfortably into the 70+ fps territory at the High grap… …
… 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. …
… I ran the game with both FSR 4 and DLSS 4.5 Preset M on the Quality Preset alongside LS1 through Lossless Scaling. …
… 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%. …
… Be that as it may, finally unlocking modern FSR image quality on existing Radeon hardware is definitely the kind of longevity that AMD really should have offered from the beginning, à-la Nvidia and DLSS 4.5. …
… Thankfully, that's finally changing now, and come July 2026, RX 7000 GPUs will officially receive FSR 4.1 support . The cards will now get the improved image quality and enhanced temporal stability that has made FSR 4.1 so mightily impressive on RX 9000 cards. …
… 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. …