AMD’s new Radeon RX 90-series playing cards and the RDNA4 structure make their official debut on March 5, and a brand new model of AMD’s FidelityFX Tremendous Decision (FSR) upscaling expertise is coming together with them.

FSR and Nvidia’s Deep Studying Tremendous Sampling (DLSS) upscalers have the identical aim: to take a lower-resolution picture rendered by your graphics card, bump up the decision, and fill within the gaps between the natively rendered pixels to make a picture that appears shut to natively rendered with out making the GPU do all that rendering work. These upscalers could make errors, they usually will not at all times look fairly nearly as good as a native-resolution picture. However they’re each good options to residing with a blurry, non-native-resolution image on an LCD or OLED show.

FSR and DLSS are particularly helpful for older or cheaper 1080p or 1440p-capable GPUs which might be related to a 4K monitor, the place you’d in any other case need to determine between a pointy 4K picture and a playable body price; it is also helpful for hitting greater body charges at decrease resolutions, which will be useful for high-refresh-rate gaming displays.

However not like previous variations of FSR, FSR 4 is upscaling pictures utilizing hardware-backed machine-learning algorithms, {hardware} newly added to RDNA4 and the RX 90-series graphics playing cards. This mirrors Nvidia’s technique with DLSS, which has at all times leveraged the tensor cores present in RTX GPUs to run machine-learning fashions to realize superior picture high quality for upscaled and AI-generated frames. If you do not have an RDNA4 GPU, you possibly can’t use FSR 4.