AMD FSR 4 To Go The Full “AI” Route, Follows NVIDIA DLSS & Intel XeSS To Deliver Better Visual Fidelity

AMD's next-gen FidelityFX Super Resolution technology known as FSR 4 will be leveraging AI in a grander scale to improve visual fidelity.

AMD Finally Ready To Adopt AI For FidelityFX Super Resolution Technology: FSR 4 To Enhance Image Quality & Improve Efficiency

Talking to AMD's SVP & GM of Computing and Graphics Business Group, Jack Huynh, during IFA 2024, Tomshardware managed to confirm some details of the next-generation FidelityFX Super Resolution suite and it looks like the red team is finally ready to adopt AI for upscaling which the competition has been using for the past few generations.

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The adoption of AI in the Radeon architecture has been anticipated by many but many had doubts if AMD would use it for use cases such as its FSR tech. Last year, AMD stated that they had different plans for AI beyond upscaling. The specific quote from David Wang stated that accelerators for AI inferencing should be used to make games for advanced and fun.

However, earlier this year, AMD teased that it was going to adopt AI for its next-generation FSR tech as 2024 will mark a huge deployment year for them.

It seems like the new management at the AMD Radeon division has now taken the covers off of their surprise tech which is FSR 4 and that will indeed incorporate AI. For reference, NVIDIA has leveraged AI in its DLSS technologies since 2018 and managed to fine-tune and optimize it in the subsequent versions with DLSS Frame-Gen and DLSS Ray-Reconstruction also leveraging full use of AI to deliver better visual fidelity. Meanwhile, Intel's XeSS has incorporated AI through the use of XMX accelerators and further refined it in the latest 1.3.1 SDK.

AMD itself has been enhancing FSR 3.1 and AFMF using AI but it looks like the next step is to harness both software and hardware-based AI additions to deliver a better experience to gamers. With FSR 4, AMD isn't just