Just yesterday we saw that PSSR is the most important and valuable technology included in the PS5 Pro. smart scaling hardware acceleration that generally achieves better image quality and stability than AMD FSR, although it is unable to surpass NVIDIA DLSS in this regard.

Junhwan Kim, graphics engine programmer at Nexon, the studio behind The First Descendant, said in an interview that he agrees that PSSR is the most impressive feature of Sony’s new console, as it is able to offer excellent image quality, and confirmed. that they will use it together with AMD FSR frame generation.

Frame generation uses information obtained from intermediate frames make another frame. The final result, the quality of the generated image and its accuracy, will depend on many things, such as the quality of the images you use as a reference, as well as the information you are able to retrieve and how it processes it.

I know what you’re thinking, the PS5 already used frame generation via AMD FSR, and it’s true, but there’s an important change in the PS5 Pro that can make a big difference, PSSR. The quality of the images generated depends on the images used as reference and whether they were rendered using a rescaler such as AMD FSR will be of lower quality compared to other PSSR renders.

This is exactly what was done on the PS5, using FSR to scale and generate frames. When using PSSR as upscaling on PS5 Pro the quality of images generated by AMD FSR can be higher because the image quality achieved by this scaling technique is excellent, and therefore the images used as input for image generation are sharper, retain more detail and have more stability.

Nexon has confirmed that it will offer The First Descendant higher graphic quality and ray tracingand that the team worked to maximize the features of Sony’s new console to offer the best possible experience. They didn’t detail the frame rate we can expect with the combination of PSSR and frame rate, but Kim mentioned a “higher frame rate experience.”