FSR 2.0 – AMD’s graphics card-powered upscaling tech for reinforcing video games efficiency – already has a more recent, prettier model. AMD have introduced FSR 2.1, which is out there to builders instantly, and has made its playable debut through a Farming Simulator 22 replace – simply a few days after FSR 2.0 acquired its newest big-name backing from Crimson Useless Redemption 2.
In keeping with AMD’s GPUOpen website, FSR 2.1 primarily focuses on lowering the ghosting impact that FSR 2.0 (and, let’s be sincere, the unique FSR 1.0) can typically add when it’s enabled. The most recent model additionally supposedly improves upscaling and “temporal stability” in sure instances, so when it items collectively a higher-resolution body from the preliminary, lower-res render, it ought to end in a sharper image that extra precisely matches the ‘true’ picture. It can nonetheless run on each AMD and Nvidia GPUs, not like its archnemesis DLSS, which wants a GeForce RTX graphics card. Oh hey, there’s an FSR 2.0 vs 2.1 comparability video as nicely:
Talking of DLSS, I’m intrigued to see whether or not this replace can press the standard hole between Nvidia and AMD’s upscalers even tighter. Regardless of FSR 2.0’s enhancements over 1.0, and the {hardware} hard-to-get of DLSS, the latter is normally the one I’ll use when given the selection, and entry to it’s no small a part of why most of right now’s greatest graphics playing cards are Nvidia fashions. It’s simply at all times seemed nearer to native decision than any model of FSR up to now, and is commonly able to matching FSR’s FPS efficiency enhancements. DLSS can also be accessible in a a lot wider vary of video games, although to be truthful, it’s had years to make up that lead over FSR 2.0, which solely launched earlier in 2022.
AMD additionally confirmed that FSR 2.1 will come to Hitman 3, however that’s it by way of confirmed supporting video games. As for FSR 2.0, which AMD is now calling FSR 2, it feels like that can proceed to seek out its means into each upcoming and already-released video games regardless of the arrival of an enhanced model. Certainly, an FSR 2.0 replace for Cyberpunk 2077 is within the works, and it’s set for help in video games like Scorn and Lies of P on their respective releases.