One of the novelties that AMD spoke about in its presentation at this year's CES were the new Adrenalin drivers, which starting this quarter will include, among other technologies, the so-called Radeon Super Resolution. Well, they just revealed that we can gain up to 70% RSR performance when it comes to gaming. What are the details?
A few months ago, AMD introduced AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution, a super-resolution algorithm that, unlike NVIDIA's DLSS solution, does not require systolic arrays or Tensor Cores to run, allowing them to run not only on AMD hardware. , but also in that of NVIDIA. With the added advantage that since it is not based on AI, it is not necessary to train the algorithm to generate the correct blocks at a higher resolution.
To curl the loop, during the CES 2022 conference they spoke lightly about the improvements that the next Adrenalin drivers are going to bring, where the so-called Radeon Super Resolution stands out, which promises to automatically deliver all the advantages of the FSR automatically to all games without the need for developers to implement it in their titles. Well, it seems that games will suffer a significant boost in their frame rate thanks to this algorithm.
RSR will increase gaming performance by 70%
Through a video, AMD has shown us the performance improvements that its AMA Radeon graphics cards will receive when the next major update to the Adrenalin drivers is released before the end of the current quarter.
In the video we can see how with the RDR an additional 70% performance is achieved in Warframe . This is achieved by rendering the Quad HD resolution scene internally, but scaling to 4K through RDR. Although at the moment we do not know the quality level used in the tests, since we do not forget that both the FSR of AMD itself and the DLSS of NVIDIA have different quality levels.
Taking into account that the RSR is going to be an improvement at the driver level, this is going to be excellent news for AMD Radeon users. The reason for this is that they will gain a few extra frames from their favorite games and will even be able to play at resolutions they previously couldn't at acceptable frame rates. And all this with the promise that all our games will be able to take advantage of it.
Only for RDNA
At the end of the video, AMD itself makes it clear that only gaming GPUs with RDNA and RDNA 2 architectures will be able to benefit from it, this means that any dedicated or integrated GPU that is not based on said architecture will not be able to benefit from Radeon Super Resolution. and it represents the definitive accolade to years of support for the GCN architecture in all its aspects.
Therefore, they will only be able to benefit from performance increases of up to 70% on RSR graphics cards from the RX 5000 and RX 6000 series, as well as their versions for laptops. We do not know if there are plans to bring it to Xbox Series and PS5 at the moment. As for the APUs, only the recently introduced Ryzen 6000 will be able to take advantage of the RSR.