AMD’s FSR 3 upscaling know-how is ready to make its debut tomorrow, on September 29, or September 30 relying on the place you reside on the earth. 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 assist will probably be introduced, although which two was not acknowledged. The 2 possible contenders are Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum, that are those prominently talked about on AMD’s web site, although after all, extra video games with FSR 3 assist are in improvement.
FSR 3 introduces what AMD calls Fluid Movement Frames, and it may be regarded as AMD’s reply to Nvidia’s DLSS 3. It makes use of a mixture of tremendous decision temporal upscaling and body technology to ship main efficiency will increase in video games that assist it.
For an excellent explainer of FSR 3, do take a look at our man Jeremy’s complete overview.
In accordance with AMD, FSR 3 will probably be optimized for a broad vary of merchandise. In its pre-release demonstrations, it might probably dramatically enhance 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 mean of 53 FPS. However with FSR3 set to efficiency mode with body technology, that jumps as much as 175 FPS—an enormous achieve.
The standard mode with body technology ends in 137 FPS, nonetheless effectively 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 technology too, delivering what needs to be the very best of each worlds. We might have to see it in motion earlier than passing judgment on it, after all.
We stay up for seeing FSR 3 in motion. Along with Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum, FSR 3 assist is coming to Cyberpunk 2077, House Marine 2, and Crimson Desert, amongst others.
Notably, FSR 3 is an open know-how, and does not require machine studying capabilities. Meaning it may be used with different distributors’ {hardware}. AMD says the Radeon RX 5700 and newer will assist upscaling and body technology together with Nvidia RTX 20-series playing cards and newer. With out body technology, assist 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 assist proper now.
Certainly one of us at PC Gamer will certainly take FSR 3 via its paces within the close to future. The preliminary efficiency positive factors look nice, however an evaluation of picture high quality will probably be wanted too.