YES, its possible. That's a good question though.
AMD Radeon VII, and few other AMD cards support
DirectML, which is an
alternative to NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS).
Think of DirectML as the Machine Learning equivalent of DXR (DirectX Raytracing), allowing DX 12 to support advanced features, and utilize AI to improve future games. DirectML is a Machine Learning (ML) extension to DirectX, and Microsoft and NVIDIA/AMD have already showcased it super sampling video-games by using the AI.
This is similar to Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS), and there no need to use third party tools for any custom resolution settings. This feature is coming soon.
Now similarly to DXR, and while Radeon VII could support DirectML, it will be up to the developers to implement this feature in their games. Moreover, we don’t know whether AMD GPU would be offering a big of a performance boost similar to the RTX series.
Because, contrary to the RTX series, the Radeon VII does not feature any AI-specific hardware (like NVIDIA’s Tensor Cores) so it will be basically running DirectML in “software” mode.
But nonetheless, DirectML is the answer to DLSS.
According to Microsoft, DirectML supports all DirectX 12 compliant hardware and uses DX12 to support advanced features and utilize AI to improve future games. DirectML supports all DirectX 12 compliant hardware, much like DXR, and like DXR, it can also exploit the hardware acceleration capabilities of modern graphics architectures.
Microsoft has
already showcased the potential of machine learning in gaming applications (see image below) before, as to what happens when
Machine Learning is used to upscale an image to four times its original resolution (basically from 1080p to 4K) to generate a sharper final image and reduced aliasing.
The image below is a comparison between ML Super Sampling and bilinear upsampling.
IF successful, an AMD-powered AI upsampling has a lot of potential for use within both next-generation games consoles and PCs users alike. But I guess only TIME will tell. It's a bit early to comment on this feature.
You can see here that the image on the left side is much sharper as well.