News AMD confirms it is working on an AI upscaler for gaming – CTO Papermaster says it's part of 'AI enabling our entire portfolio

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AMD's CTO Mark Papermaster confirmed in an interview that it is working on an AI upscaler for gaming. This could be the next major update for FSR.

AMD confirms it is working on an AI upscaler for gaming – CTO Papermaster says it's part of 'AI enabling our entire portfolio : Read more

 

[Metal Messiah.]

Currently, AMD's existing FSR upscaling technology relies on a spatial upscaler that utilizes AMD's Edge-Adaptive Spatial Upsampling and Robust Contrast-Adaptive Sharpening.

Nope. Only FSR 1 relied on spatial upscaling, without relying on other data such as frame history or motion vectors. FSR 2 supports temporal data.

Current-gen FSR 3 technology also uses a combination of super resolution temporal upscaling technology and frame generation/FG.

Nonetheless, with the introduction of AMD's XDNA NPUs in its latest Ryzen desktop and mobile APUs, it makes sense that AMD would go this route. Adding AI to all of its software portfolio will help increase the adoption rate of its new NPU-equipped APUs.

If AMD is building its AI-flavored version of FSR for its XDNA NPUs, it might only support Ryzen 8000 series mobile CPUs and Ryzen 8000 series desktop APUs.

You do realize that apart from NPUs (for accelerated AI enablement), we also have Radeon RX 7000 series RDNA 3 GPUs with AI accelerators ?

Current-gen RDNA 3 sports dedicated AI acceleration with Wave MMA (matrix multiply-accumulate) instructions, which can help improve AI-based performance and also benefits ray tracing instructions, similar to Nvidia's Tensor cores.

So will future next-gen iterations of the RDNA arch GPUs, where AI-based upscaling might help.

 

[TechyInAZ]

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[usertests]

For all we know, it could just be an alternative upscaler dedicated solely to systems featuring its XDNA NPUs. But on the flip side, it could be a full update to FSR 2 upscaling that works on all system hardware. Hopefully, it is some version of the latter.

NPUs already addressed above. I think they should make a clean break from everything older than RDNA3 if that's what it takes to keep up with Nvidia. The older versions will always be available.

 

[JTWrenn]

Very interested to see quality comparisons on the upscalars. I have a feeling we are going to go back to the AMD Nvidia weird quality fights back when matrox would randomly show up as well. Those FPS numbers look great, but does it hurt quality more? I think we are gonna see a whole lot of numbers and quality tricks with a ton of spikey FPS issues as this fight heats up.

 

[Sleepy_Hollowed]

I mean… this may help handhelds, but having fake frames and oddities pop around are just not something I’m interested in.

 

[vijosef]

AMD's FSR is broken. It doesn't sends to the monitor the frames it supposedly generates. It feels slower with FSR than with it.
People feels it bad and believes that is a lag problem, but it's lost frames.

 

[shalako33]

As long as it makes full use of the AI accelerators on my 7900xt like it should have the first time i'll be happy. And if they are really focusing on their AI acceleration hardware everything before that is out so they might as well forget about it and move on.