AMD’s FSR 3 upscaling know-how is about to make its debut tomorrow, on September 29, or September 30 relying on the place you reside on this planet. AMD’s Frank Azor, the chief architect of gaming options and advertising made the announcement today through Twitter (or X if you happen to actually should name it that). FSR 3, or FidelityFX Tremendous Decision, was introduced by AMD again on the launch if the Radeon RX 7000-series in early November 2022. It has been a very long time coming, however the wait is sort of over.
Two video games with FSR 3 help shall be introduced, although which two was not acknowledged. The 2 probably contenders are Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum, that are those prominently talked about on AMD’s web site, although in fact, extra video games with FSR 3 help are in growth.
FSR 3 introduces what AMD calls Fluid Movement Frames, and it may be considered AMD’s reply to Nvidia’s DLSS 3. It makes use of a mix of tremendous decision temporal upscaling and body era to ship main efficiency will increase in video games that help it.
For an excellent explainer of FSR 3, do take a look at our man Jeremy’s complete overview.
Based on AMD, FSR 3 shall be optimized for a broad vary of merchandise. In its pre-release demonstrations, it may possibly dramatically improve body charges on the highest ray traced settings. Utilizing Forspoken for example, with FSR 3 off at 4K with extremely excessive settings and raytracing, a Radeon RX 7900 XTX will ship a median of 53 FPS. However with FSR3 set to efficiency mode with body era, that jumps as much as 175 FPS—an enormous achieve.
The standard mode with body era ends in 137 FPS, nonetheless nicely over double the 53 FPS when FSR 3 is off.
FSR 3 additionally introduces a brand new AA mode that AMD calls ‘Native AA’. It is a methodology that applies the FSR3 AA and sharpening however with none upscaling. AMD says this may present superior picture high quality with solely a modest efficiency hit. And you’ll allow body era too, delivering what needs to be the very best of each worlds. We might must see it in motion earlier than passing judgment on it, in fact.
We sit up for seeing FSR 3 in motion. Along with Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum, FSR 3 help is coming to Cyberpunk 2077, House Marine 2, and Crimson Desert, amongst others.
Notably, FSR 3 is an open know-how, and would not require machine studying capabilities. Meaning it may be used with different distributors’ {hardware}. AMD says the Radeon RX 5700 and newer will help upscaling and body era together with Nvidia RTX 20-series playing cards and newer. With out body era, help is widened to incorporate the RX 590 and above, and the GTX 10-series and above. There is not any point out of Intel Xe help proper now.
One in every of us at PC Gamer will certainly take FSR 3 via its paces within the close to future. The preliminary efficiency good points look nice, however an evaluation of picture high quality shall be wanted too.