PCG:While the arrival of the Radeon HD 7990 wasn’t exactly a watershed moment in PC gaming AMD’s statements surrounding the launch were intriguing. AMD’s senior product manager, Devon Nekechuk, was adamant they were looking to “transform AMD into a gaming company.” From recent developments at the Texas-based company that transformation looks to be gaining pace.
AMD has long been the best value option if you're looking for a new GPU. Now even their latest Radeon RX 7000 series is getting cheaper.
Last September, we unleashed AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3)1 on the gaming world, delivering massive FPS improvements in supported games.
So to put 2 and 2 together... FSR 3.1 is releasing later this year and the launch game to support it is Rachet and Clank: Rift Apart. In Sony's DevNet documentation it shows Rachet and Clank: Rift Apart as the example for PSSR. PS5 Pro also launches later this year... but there is something else coming too: AMD RDNA 4 Cards (The very same technology thats in the Pro). So, PSSR is either FSR 3.1 or its a direct collaboration with AMD for that builds on FSR 3.1. Somehow they are related. I think PSSR is FSR 3.1 with the bonus of AI... now lets see if RDNA 4 cards also include an AI block.
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FSR 3.1 fixes Frame Generation
If you have a 30 series RTX card you can now use DLSS3 with FSR Frame Generation (No 40 Series required!)
Its Available on all Cards (we assume it will come to console)
Fixes Temporal stability
I wonder how much they fixed the ghosting in dark areas as Nvidia are leaving them in the dust with image quality. Still good that they are improving in big leaps, I'll have to see when the RTX5000 series is released who I go with... at the moment the RTX5000's are sounding like monsters.
Now that the RTX 4070 Super has launched, AMD have chopped the price of the RX 7900 XT to new lows.
AMD might as well focus on gaming since they can't compete against Intel in the cpu market
If they want to get into this media centre business it's not altogether entirely stupid, though we've been waiting for that particular Messiah for quite a while now.
I've been using AMD cpu's for ages now, never had any problems maxing my games out. People place far too much importance on CPU requirements for modern gaming anyway. Most games are GPU bound. People with Phenom II's are still gaming just fine lol, dunno what all the doomsday comments across the web are on about.
Intel has better performance but they also have a fuckload higher R&D budget as well.
people dont realize that xbox 720 and playstation 4 sales are the only thing that can save AMD and help them to wipe out there debt. i dont know but even than the margin from the profit of ps4 and 720 sales is so small that even nvidia turn down the deal with sony and microsoft. i always loved AMD for there graphic cards. even right now i am using 7870 but there future is very dim.