One of the novelties that AMD talked about during its presentation at this year’s CES was the new Adrenalin drivers, which from 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 gaming performance. 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 operate, allowing them to run not only on of AMD hardware, but also in that of Nvidia. With the added benefit that since it’s not AI-based, there’s no need to train the algorithm to generate the correct blocks at a higher resolution.
To come full circle, at the CES 2022 conference they lightly talked 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 benefits of FSR automatically to all games without developers needing to implement it in their titles. Well, it looks like games will get a significant frame rate boost from this algorithm.
RSR will increase gaming performance by 70%
Through a video, AMD showed us the performance boosts its AMA Radeon graphics cards will receive when the next major Adrenalin driver update is released before the end of the current quarter.
In the video we can see how with the RDR it is achieved 70% bonus performance in Warframe. This is achieved by rendering the Quad HD resolution scene internally, but upscaling it to 4K via RDR. Although at the moment we do not know the level of quality used in the tests, since we do not forget that the FSR from AMD itself and the DLSS from NVIDIA have different levels of quality.
Considering that the RSR is going to be a driver-level enhancement, this will be great news for AMD Radeon users. The reason for this is that they’ll gain a few extra frames from their favorite games and 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 enjoy it.
Ground for RDNA
At the end of the video, AMD itself specifies 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 it. Radeon Super Resolution and represents the definitive consecration to years of support for the GCN architecture in all its aspects.
Therefore, they will only be able to enjoy performance increases of up to 70% on the RSR RX 5000 and RX 6000 series graphics cards, as well as their laptop versions. We don’t know if there are any plans to bring it to Xbox Series and PS5 at this time. When it comes to APUs, only the recently introduced Ryzen 6000 will be able to take advantage of RSR.
