New AMD graphics cards are on the way, arriving sometime in the next couple of months, and they’ll be packing an upgrade to the company’s FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling tech.
But what if you’re still running a relatively recent Radeon card? Well, according to some new but unverified info, any game that supports FSR 3.1 should also work with FSR 4.0.
The info comes from “Kepler_L2,” a Twitter leaker with a strong history of accurate info on AMD. VideoCardz.com reports that despite AMD’s paucity of information shared on the upgraded, machine learning-enabled system, the new settings will be enabled by DLL file that “should” be compatible with titles that support the existing FSR 3.1 standard.
It’s possible — but absolutely not confirmed — that AMD could essentially make all 40+ official FSR 3.1-compatible games work with FSR 4.0 on the day of release. These include popular titles like Ark, Ghost of Tsushima, and Marvel Rivals. VideoCardz pins this capability down to the newly separated super resolution and frame generation libraries.
AMD’s upscaling tech is generally agreed upon to be far behind Nvidia’s, and the latter remains dominant in the GPU space to the point of virtual monopoly. But consumers are definitely noticing that Nvidia’s cards aren’t getting any cheaper, even if the latest ones aren’t as astronomically expensive as some believed they would be.
Making its newest upscaling system compatible with older AMD graphics cards — as old as the Radeon RX 5700 from 2019 — might be one way to catch much-needed attention from cash-starved PC gamers. We’ll have to wait for more info on FSR 4 before we can make the call.