AMD Is Bringing Improved FSR 4 Upscaling To Its Older GPUs (arstechnica.com) 10
AMD says FSR 4.1 will finally bring its newer hardware-accelerated upscaling technology to older Radeon GPUs. "The rollout will begin in July with RDNA3- and 3.5-based GPUs, which include the Radeon RX 7000 series, as well as integrated GPUs like the Radeon 890M and Radeon 8060S," reports Ars Technica. "In 'early 2027,' support will also be extended to the RDNA2 architecture, which includes the Radeon RX 6000 series, integrated GPUs like the Radeon 680M, and the Steam Deck's GPU. This would also open the door to supporting FSR 4 on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, all of which also use RDNA2-based GPUs." From the report: [AMD Computing and Graphics SVP Jack Huynh's] short video presentation didn't get into performance comparisons, but did mention that AMD had to work to get FSR 4's superior hardware-backed upscaling working on its older graphics architectures. RDNA4 includes AI accelerators that support the FP8 data format in the hardware, and porting FSR 4 to older GPUs meant getting it running on the integer-based INT8 hardware in the RDNA3 and RDNA2-based GPUs.
This may mean that FSR 4.1 running on an RDNA3 or RDNA2-based GPU may come with a larger performance hit relative to RDNA4 cards, or that image quality may differ slightly. Modders have already worked to get FSR4 working on INT8-supporting GPUs, and the older GPUs reportedly see a 10 to 20 percent performance hit relative to FSR 3.1 running on the same hardware. AMD's official implementation may or may not improve on these numbers.
[...] Any games that support FSR 4 should be able to support FSR 4.1 running on Radeon 7000-series cards; users will presumably be able to install a driver update in July that enables the new feature. Games that support the older FSR 3.1 can also be forced to use FSR 4 in the Radeon graphics driver.
This may mean that FSR 4.1 running on an RDNA3 or RDNA2-based GPU may come with a larger performance hit relative to RDNA4 cards, or that image quality may differ slightly. Modders have already worked to get FSR4 working on INT8-supporting GPUs, and the older GPUs reportedly see a 10 to 20 percent performance hit relative to FSR 3.1 running on the same hardware. AMD's official implementation may or may not improve on these numbers.
[...] Any games that support FSR 4 should be able to support FSR 4.1 running on Radeon 7000-series cards; users will presumably be able to install a driver update in July that enables the new feature. Games that support the older FSR 3.1 can also be forced to use FSR 4 in the Radeon graphics driver.
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GPU prices have been substantially stable in the past 1.5 years, RAM and SSD on the other hand...
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My 9060XT is exactly $120 more now than when I bought it last October at Micro Center. $349 now $469
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Then it goes by locale, I paid my Sapphire Nitro+ 9070XT 750€ in January, the cheapest 9070XT I can find here now is 612€, which is below the launch MSRP of 9070XT over here.
What I'm saying is, GPU price fluctuation is nowhere close to that of RAM and SSD, and it's not what is holding back PC upgrades.
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It's normal that the most expensive version of something changes price less, often not at all, when other models are experiencing high inflation. The most expensive model is already the highest price the buyer can bear.
Cheapest 9070XT is now priced less than a mid-priced 9060XT.
Same with anything else; cheap milk doubled in price, but grass fed organic milk didn't change at all.
Cheap eggs quadrupled in price, pasture raised local eggs didn't change.
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I paid $439.99 for my 9060XT in January, exact same model is $649.95 right now, a difference of $210,62.
Definitely a thing.
It's because they are still actively on the market (Score:4, Interesting)
You can go out right now and buy a brand new 6700. So it's kind of messed up to yank support if you're actively selling the gpus.
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Don't conflate support with backporting new features. While I agree it's a Dick Move (TM) to restrict new features to new hardware, it is common in the entire commercial world (not just in tech). One can still support the 6700 while saying it won't ever get FSA4.1
But competition is good. AMD has basically given up the entire market at this point to NVIDIA so I suspect they are doing some panic work to make their offers more attractive.
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You sound like a corporate bootlicker. You're incredibly wrong, not just in general, but in specifically talking about these upscaling features of GPUs. E.g. FSR4 has been backported to the 7000 series for a while. No it doesn't rely on software rendering, and it resulted in only a 10-15% hit in performance, which is one of the reasons why AMD relented now - they tried the corporate line you just used and were proven wrong.
The same applies to NVIDIA. Frame Gen wasn't backported to the 20 series along come t