Sunnyvale is working on developing its own technology AI-powered supersampling and noise reduction. These technologies will expand AMD’s FSR ecosystem, which in its current state does not use any type of AI enhancement, and will aim to compete with NVIDIA’s ray reconstruction, which launched with DLSS 3.5.

That said, what AMD has in hand is development smart noise limiter which will not only improve image quality but can also improve performance if properly implemented and accelerated. Yes, I mean hardware acceleration, which means that the next generation of AMD graphics, known as the Radeon RX 8000, could surprise us in this regard.

It is no coincidence that AMD is working on this project. The company recognizes the importance of trajectory tracking and the importance of using a noise limiter when using this technology. Path tracing is so difficult that the relatively small number of rays they ultimately generate are used dirty image with lots of noise.

AI-powered noise cancelers make a huge difference when accompanied by path tracking, because they can better distinguish between good and bad pixelsand are able to achieve a cleaner image with more detail by accurately distinguishing between different ray tracing effects.

This technology could be one of the main innovations of the next version of AMD FSR and I have also heard rumors that it could include the new smart scaling it will use new AI-specific hardware that will theoretically include Radeon RX 8000 graphics cards.

The truth is that this It is an absolutely necessary movement. Consider that AMD is currently the only one not using high-performance AI-specific hardware in their GPUs, and that they haven’t developed game-changing technologies that harness the potential of AI.

NVIDIA has a whole ecosystem that is being formed DLSS 3.5, and their GPUs have tensor cores and optical flow units. Even Intel, which has minimal market share, uses mechanics in its graphics cores and has the technology XeSSwhich is AI-enhanced and hardware-accelerated intelligent scaling.

AMD needs to start making headway in this regard, and it appears that they are The RDNA 4 architecture will be the first step in this direction. I remind you that this new architecture also promises important performance improvements in ray tracing, and according to AMD itself, they will be introduced in early 2025.