AMD Is Bringing FSR 4.1 to Xbox Consoles and Handhelds

AMD is expanding its FSR 4.1 upscaling technology beyond Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs to Xbox Series X/S consoles, Xbox Ally handhelds, laptops, and Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards. The Verge reports: AMD launched its FSR 4.1 update for Radeon RX 9000-series graphics cards in March, and promised to bring the technology to older GPUs and handhelds this year. FSR 4.1 can improve performance in more than 300 supported games, including Cyberpunk 2077, Battlefield 6, and Assassin's Creed Shadows.

[...] While owners of Radeon RX 6000-series GPUs and Gorgon Halo- or Strix Halo-powered devices will get FSR 4.1 today with the latest Adrenalin Edition 26.10.1 drivers, Xbox console owners will have to wait a little longer. "We've worked very closely with AMD to optimize this technology, giving developers another powerful tool for great performance and visual quality for players," says Xbox CTO Scott Van Vilet.

Just in time for GTA 6?

[Locke2005]

Nope, not until March... :-(

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[Locke2005]

(My daughter keeps joking she is going to take the day off from work the day GTA 6 comes out, apparently that's a meme now. I keep telling her she definitely IS NOT. Her Xbox account is actually my hotmail account, pretty sure I can change the password...)

Re: Just in time for GTA 6?

[drinkypoo]

Weird and gross, dude

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[sabbede]

Does she work for you? Is she under 18? Does she live with you?

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[Locke2005]

No, no, and no. I am still paying all her food and gas money and supplying her with a car though. And like I say, I can always change the password on the Xbox account she uses.

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[sabbede]

Is this an inside joke?

Why am I curious about this at all?

Anything less would be a disappointment...

[ffkom]

... given that 6 years ago, when the Xbox series was introduced, they specifically touted its "AI" computation (8-bit integer) support in hardware [digitalfoundry.net], unlike the PS5, which has no such support - but already enjoys "QSSR" upscaling.

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[ffkom]

Since the page I linked above contains a long text, here's the most relevant excerpt:

"We knew that many inference algorithms need only 8-bit and 4-bit integer positions for weights and the math operations involving those weights comprise the bulk of the performance overhead for those algorithms," says Andrew Goossen. "So we added special hardware support for this specific scenario. The result is that Series X offers 49 TOPS for 8-bit integer operations and 97 TOPS for 4-bit integer operations. Note that the weights are integers, so those are TOPS and not TFLOPs. The net result is that Series X offers unparalleled intelligence for machine learning."

For the last 6 years, we have not seen any use being made of that feature. "FSR 4.1 on Xbox" would be its first visible use.

Why not PlayStation 5?

[kriston]

Why not add it to the PlayStation 5? It's essentially similar AMD hardware compared to the Xbox Series X|S.

Re: Why not PlayStation 5?

[ravenshrike]

Sony have been working with AMD on a bespoke solution for the base ps5 called qssr which is an adaptation of the Pssr of the PS5 Pro. Being tailored specifically for the PS5/Pro, those solutions in theory will be better than FSR4 which is meant to work on such broader spectrum of hardware.