Worried AMDs FSR 4 frame rate boosting wont be as good as Nvidia DLSS 4? Good news! Initial game support is rumored to be healthy

Date:
Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:07:33 +0000

Description:
AMD FSR 4 looks set for drop in support with FSR 3.1 games, meaning RDNA 4 GPUs will be good to go with over 50 titles at launch.

FULL STORY ======================================================================AMD FSR 4 will supposedly be a drop in replacement for FSR 3.1 In theory, that means all FSR 3.1 games should support the newer tech This is just a rumor, though it chimes with hints AMD has already dropped

AMD could have a whole bunch of games lined up for FSR 4 support, its frame rate boosting tech exclusive to incoming RDNA 4 graphics cards , right from the get-go ( one of which will be Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 , pictured
above).

So far, theres been something of a guessing game as to how FSR 4 support
could shake out especially given that Nvidia has a lot of PC games lined up for its rival DLSS 4 from launch but this is the best news Team Red fans couldve hoped for.

The theory is and it is just a rumor, floated on X by a regular hardware leaker, Kepler that AMD is just going to replace the existing FSR 3.1 DLL file with the new FSR 4 one. The RDNA4 driver replaces FSR 3.1 DLL with FSR4 January 25, 2025

What that means, as a drop-in replacement, is that FSR 4 will be compatible with all existing FSR 3.1 games, without the game developers needing to do anything. In other words, itll just work with the existing titles that are covered for FSR 3.1 support.

Or this should be the case, as Kepler phrases it, so we must note that they arent fully sure on this. As ever with rumors, we should exercise caution around them, but in this case, AMD has already hinted that FSR 3.1 games
would get FSR 4 in marketing materials (during the FSR 4 reveal at CES 2025).

As VideoCardz , which noticed the above post, points out, there are in excess of 50 games which currently support FSR 3.1, so should be good to go with FSR 4.

If youre wondering why that support is based on FSR 3.1, rather than FSR 3, its because AMD made the move to include frame generation with the former, so the latter being brought up to FSR 4 would require a lot more work than just dropping in a new DLL file. (Image credit: Shutterstock) Analysis: Good news, but with that RDNA 4 catch

This is seemingly good news, then, for those looking at buying an RX 9070 graphics card , which will be the first boards to use FSR 4 when these next-gen GPUs are released in March . Indeed, AMD has already said that the reason its taking a bit more time with these RDNA 4 graphics cards is to get them right for launch , and perfect the graphics drivers as well as enabling more FSR 4 games.

This sounds like a smart move to me, especially given the rumors around Nvidias RTX 5000 range , which currently make it seem like theres no a big rush to get RX 9070 on sale. Id like all these next-gen GPUs to be on sale sooner rather than later, ideally, but if I have to wait for a good product, then so be it.

AMDs FSR 4 sounds like a sizeable stride forward for frame rate boosting from Team Red, but the catch, of course, is that its exclusive to RDNA 4. This
goes against the grain for FSR in that the tech has previously been open in nature and available for Nvidia RTX GPUs , as well as previous-gen AMD graphics cards (back to the RX 5000 series, technically, albeit not with
frame generation).

So, its a definite shame to lose that aspect, but thats seemingly the price Team Red has had to pay for making FSR 4 offer better quality upscaling (and frame generation). Given the constant chatter from gamers about how AMD is behind DLSS in this respect, Im hardly surprised Team Red made this call, but as weve discussed in the past, its a compromise which some PC gamers could find difficult to accept . You might also like... Nvidia RTX 5090 review: the supercar of graphics cards Still worried RTX 5000 GPUs dont have enough VRAM? Nvidias secret weapon is powerful AI texture compression, and its calmed some of my fears AMD vs Nvidia : who is the graphics card champion?



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/worried-amds-fsr-4-frame-rate-boosting -wont-be-as-good-as-nvidia-dlss-4-good-news-initial-game-support-is-rumored-to -be-healthy


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