AMD is improving its Nvidia DLSS rival these are the PC games thatll get FSR 2.0 first

Date:
Wed, 11 May 2022 09:54:14 +0000

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As well as launching new RDNA 2 GPUs, AMD is giving its frame rate boosting tech a major revamp.

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AMD has just unleashed some new RDNA 2 graphics cards , and with those refreshed GPUs comes news of the launch of FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) version 2.0, along with the games thatll support it first.

In case youve forgotten, FSR is AMDs equivalent of Nvidia DLSS though there are some key differences (more on that in a moment) and its a tech that boosts frame rates in supported games.

The first game to use FSR 2.0 will be Deathloop with support going live tomorrow, May 12 (via a patch); and thats no surprise given that the innovative shooter was used as a showcase for the feature.

AMD also let us know which games are next in line to get the benefit of FSR 2.0, and that includes Microsoft Flight Simulator, EVE Online, and Forspoken (when it comes out hopefully in October this will also be the first game to use DirectStorage on the PC, so will be a very interesting one to watch).

Heres the full list of games slated to get FSR 2.0 in the coming months after Deathloop: Asterigos Delysium EVE Online Farming Simulator 22 Forspoken Grounded Microsoft Flight Simulator NiShuiHan Perfect World Remake Swordsman Remake Unknown 9: Awakening Analysis: Temporal advantage but how close will FSR 2.0 come to DLSS?

FSR 2.0 was promised for a Q2 2022 launch , so it has arrived in good time with a mid-May kick-off.

As weve heard before, AMD is promising a big leap forward in terms of performance, with the feature switching to use temporal upscaling, rather
than the spatial upscaling that FSR 1.0 was built around. The difference is that while the latter uses data from just the current frame of the game thats running to upscale with, temporal upscaling also makes use of past frames
and the result is a better level of quality.

Whether thatll match the kind of breakthrough Nvidia had with DLSS 2.0 ,
well, lets put it this way AMD has a lot of catching up to do. FSR 2.0 still does not employ AI chops like DLSS, of course, and thats a big part of the reason Team Greens solution has been so successful. However, we wont know how these frame rate boosters really compare until we can actually test them out ourselves, but AMD is certainly expected to close the gap in terms of quality considerably (performance may be another matter).

Even if AMD only comes much closer to DLSS, rather than actually matching it, thatll still be a big step forward, and FSR has its own strengths, a notable one being compatibility with rival graphics cards (it works with some Nvidia GPUs and remember, DLSS is only good with Nvidia cards, and just RTX models at that).

As for the actual games initially slated to support FSR 2.0, the list is a
bit underwhelming, with only a scattering of big names in there. Still, this is just for starters, and hopefully well see more high-profile devs prepping the tech for their games soon enough. Forspoken will support FSR 2.0 and DirectStorage find out more about the game here

Via Toms Hardware



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