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[email protected]AMD has finally released its equivalent of
Nvidia’s DLSS tech, called FidelityFX Super
Resolution (FSR). Like DLSS, it works on the
principle of upscaling gaming graphics to
higher resolutions to lessen the workload
and improve performance. Unlike DLSS,
however, it doesn’t require AMD-specific
hardware, and works on Nvidia’s GPUs too.
AMD claims that FSR can improve
performance by up to 2.4x at 4K on average
in the technology’s Performance mode,
when compared with running at 4K natively.
Four modes are available – Performance,
Balanced, Quality and Ultra Quality, with
AMD claiming that ‘image quality is almost
indistinguishable from the target native
resolution’ in the latter mode’.According to AMD, FSR’s ‘spatial
upscaling technology utilises an advanced
edge reconstruction algorithm to analyse
features in the source image and recreate
them at a higher target resolution, followed
by a sharpening pass to further improve
quality by enhancing texture details’.
Seven games support FidelityFX Super
Resolution at launch, including Anno 1800,
Rift Breaker (pictured) Evil Genius 2 and
Godfall, with support for other games,
including DOTA 2, Far Cry 6 and Resident Evil
Village, expected to be implemented by the
end of this year.
Look out for a full analysis of both DLSS
and FidelityFX Super Resolution in the next
issue of Custom PC.AMD COUNTERS DLSS WITH FSR
Razer has released a new version
of its compact Blade 14 laptop that
uses AMD CPUs, being the first Razer
laptop to do so. The latest Blade 14
uses AMD’s Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU;
despite its Ryzen 9 branding, this
contains eight cores, rather than the
12 of its desktop counterpart, with a
boost clock of up to 4.6GHz.
Meanwhile, GPU power comes
from Nvidia’s GeForce RTX
3000-series, with options for RTX
3060, 3070 and 3080 chips. All the
models come with 16GB of RAM,
a 1TB SSD and a 14in 2,560 x 1,
display with a 165Hz refresh rate.
Prices start at £1,800 inc VAT for the
RTX 3060 model from razer.com
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