AMD Launches Competitor to Nvidia DLSS Graphics Tech: FidelityFX Super Resolution
With its latest addition to its FidelityFX graphics suite, AMD brings performance-enhancing supersampling tech to the masses, but with a key difference: support for both AMD and Nvidia GPUs.
For almost three years, Nvidia’s DLSS (its acronym for “Deep Learning Super Sampling”) has been a pioneer in back-end techniques for conjuring faster PC-game frame rates out of what seems like thin air. Driven by what Nvidia calls its “Tensor” cores (found in every graphics card bearing the GeForce RTX badge), DLSS can dramatically improve the frame rate in games that are specially trained to use it. In a nutshell, DLSS uses information from higher-resolution renders of a supported game and applies that info to actually render the game at a lower resolution on the hardware.
Thanks to that innovation, in games that support DLSS (and with GeForce cards that can do the job), gamers can see faster frames without a loss of visual fidelity. In essence, DLSS boosts frame rates for the same amount of power, turning what we thought we knew about PC and console gaming performance ever-so-slightly on its head.
