Nvidia is also helping out with new graphics card technology
Nvidia’s DLSS is miles ahead of AMD’s FSR counterpart – or at least it used to be. Because now AMD has greatly improved the technology and thus noticeably shortened the gap to the competition. And that’s not just a delight for AMD fans – because Nvidia users can also benefit from it.
AMD FSR 2.0: New upscaling technology competes with Nvidia’s DLSS
Graphics features such as ray tracing ensure that shadows and light cast as well as reflections in games look damn realistic – but this is at the expense of performance. To catch that Nvidia’s RTX cards use a technology called DLSS. This calculates the basic image in the game in a lower resolution and then scales it up to the desired size using AI algorithms. The result: A high-resolution image with a solid frame rate.
But AMD also offers its customers a suitable counterpart: FSR. In a direct comparison to the current version of DLSS, however, the upscaling results of AMD technology have often not been able to keep up – at least until now. AMD recently introduced the 2.0 version of FSR, which offers various improvements.
And according to the first test reports from techpowerup and Computerbase the jump in terms of image quality compared to the first version in FSR is immense – in fact, it should even be almost on a par with DLSS 2.0. And this despite the fact that AMD’s upscaling technology does not use any AI algorithms. Especially when playing in 4K, the two graphics technologies from AMD and Nvidia seem to be on par, with lower resolutions (WQHD & Full-HD) there is a slight advantage for Nvidia (source: tech powerup / computer base).
The technology experts at Digital Foundry come to a slightly different conclusion. In their estimation, FSR is still noticeably behind DLSS, but has improved significantly since its introduction (source: YouTube / Digital Foundry).
How does DLSS actually work? And how much does it bring you? We tell you in the video:
AMD FSR offers another advantage
What should also not be disregarded: In contrast to Nvidia’s DLSS technology AMD’s FSR can be used by both AMD and Nvidia graphics cards – older models are also supported.
For example, PC players can also use a make use of it with a RX 400 or GeForce 1000 card that is now 6 years old. However, the new FSR 2.0 version still has one shortcoming: in contrast to the original version, developers have to customizing their games for AMD FSR 2.0. According to AMD, the effort should be kept low if the corresponding game already supports DLSS – but it is still associated with additional effort.
