FidelityFX Super Resolution, better known as FSR, is AMD’s rescaling technology, which, despite showing significant improvement and including Fluid Motion Frames in its third version, is still not up to NVIDIA’s DLSS level. One of the main factors that seems to keep the green giant ahead is usage Artificial Intelligenceand so those responsible for the Radeon graphics division decided to follow the same path.

FSR, unlike DLSS, has a strong cross-platform approach in terms of supported GPUs. While NVIDIA technology is only compatible with GeForce graphics, AMD can work on Radeon, GeForce and Intel graphics on paper. However, unlike DLSS and XeSS, FSR cannot currently rely on hardware designed to accelerate artificial intelligence to temporarily correct graphics artifacts.

At this point, it does not hurt to recall that DLSS requires the Tensor cores present in GeForce graphics, while Intel has opted for a dual approach: one that consists of an implementation using the XMX matrices present in some of its graphics, and the other. which relies on DP4a instructions that support NVIDIA and AMD graphics. In this way, XeSS offers cross-platform support, but probably shows its best side in Intel graphics with XMX matrices.

Given that FSR is the only one of the three major rescaling technologies that is not supported by AI, and the importance it is gaining in computing, Mark Papermaster, AMD’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), has made it very clear that the company will support AI-powered resizing in the current year of 2024.:

“2024 is a big year for us as we have invested many years in our artificial intelligence (AI) hardware and software capabilities. We just finished enabling AI for our entire portfolio, for you know: cloud, edge computing, desktops, our embedded devices and gaming devices. “We’re enabling our gaming devices to scale with AI, and 2024 is a really big deployment year.”



In short, Mark Papermaster clearly points out that AMD is working on introducing AI support in FSR, and it seems that the intention is to release a new implementation sometime this year, 2024.

Radeon RX 7000 graphics and Ryzen 7000 series processors are the first generation of AMD hardware with chips to accelerate artificial intelligence.so the company should already have the foundations in place for FSR to rely on AI on at least some of its own hardware.

The implementation of the use of artificial intelligence may open the door for FSR to approach DLSS, but what results will ultimately be achieved remains to be seen. On the other hand, it remains up in the air whether AMD will release this part as open source, as they have done so far with various versions of FSR, or if they prefer to keep it as proprietary software, which would be quite disappointing. from his side.