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That's the thing.

You don't need "AI" upscaling as there's a plethora of already very good and heavy (computing-wise) algorithms that upscale video pretty well depending on the type of source.

Anyone using "madVR" knows this. For the uninitiated, madVR has had CUDA acceleration for a long long time as well as various other "GPGPU" ways of "accelerating" their algorithms. This works whenever you're using Media Player Classic for streams, but it still works. I'm sure AMD or nVidia could help the madVR people improve this, but of course they won't do it.

Yes, I'm salty as always when they try to do things in-house when there are perfectly amazing working tech already in the market they could leverage.

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AMD got it right, the solution which is leveraging FSR algorithm is actually working as efficient as Nvidia Video Super-Resolution.
I was interested about this feature when AMD deployed it with the driver 24.1.1 and did some investigation as their "Video upscaling" button shows none or very bad result, for me this switch button should not be enabled yet. When I looked into the code source (Chromium) of Chrome and Edge, the developer did not yet implement it, so no surprise it doesn't work... neither VLC, who is supporting AMD on this solution, has it done yet, but I have seens some commits ongoing, it might be for soon.

What the developers need is to implement a new library in AMD AMF's SKD, it has a Video upscaling feature based on FSR which is available starting from the driver 24.1.1. Therefore I did some coding to try it out playing some videos, and I can confirm that the result is pretty impressive!

I beleive it is a timing problem, AMD announced it to quickly while Edge, Chrome and VLC did not deploy the update yet.
 
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Pierce2623 said:
Why is this article so focused on it not being AI powered? Is Tom’s Hardware that obsessed with trend chasing? Are you forced to use certain “relevant” words x times an article now? Doesn’t seem healthy for a site I read for news and reviews.
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Quiet!!! You are going to ruin the stock offering for my new startup specializing in AI powered garbage bags!
 
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Pierce2623 said:
Why is this article so focused on it not being AI powered? Is Tom’s Hardware that obsessed with trend chasing? Are you forced to use certain “relevant” words x times an article now? Doesn’t seem healthy for a site I read for news and reviews.
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AI is the special sauce that makes DLSS better than FSR.
 
I honestly didn't even know that this was a thing (probably because I never felt the need for it) but it seems pretty cool. My attitude to features like this has always been "I don't care how it works, I only care that it does work." so whether it's AI-driven or not, if it works, it works.

Like, sure, DLSS is better than FSR but only marginally so. The only way to tell them apart is to have them side-by-side. If you've only got one, you'll be perfectly happy with it whether it's DLSS, FSR or XeSS because from what I've seen, they're all damn good. None of them hold enough of an edge to be a feature worth paying more for as far as I'm concerned. They all work and that's all that matters to me.
 
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