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-Fran- Finally AMD. Finally… Took you long enough, but this is still a W. Also, this means Steam Deck gets FSR4.1 officially. Neat. Regards. Reply
ezst036 I bet Valve's voice in the background helped push this forward. 🤔 Still, a late win, yes but a win. That early code leak probably also made this sort of inevitable. Reply
thestryker While the immediacy of RDNA 3 getting it is probably driven by the integrated proliferation (and lack of RDNA 4 here) I'm glad they're moving just the same. The wait for RDNA 2 seems pretty dumb, but at least they've officially committed to it. Reply
ManDaddio Well it's about time. But that means the Radeon used market prices are going way up now. Steam box might use fsr4 now? Reply
DS426 ManDaddio said: Well it's about time. But that means the Radeon used market prices are going way up now. Steam box might use fsr4 now? I don't know that it'll have that effect, lol. Yes, we're assuming that Steam Deck ("early 2027") and Steam Machine will get FSR4 support now. Reply
VizzieTheViz Nice! As a 7900XTX user I’m quite pleased with this even though I’m not playing any games where I can’t get 60fps@4K yet (the most my primary screen can do). Good to know this’ll be available when I get round to playing games that need it for a decent experience. Reply
rluker5 As a 9070XT owner I think this is great. Wider install base means more dev participation. But 2 corrections: 1. FSR4.1 has more shimmering than FSR 4.0, probably revealed by the increased sharpness and clarity, and 2. The performance hit on RDNA 3,2 relative to RDNA4 will be noticeable as the 9060XT has more significantly more 8 bit than the 7900XTX , much less the 6900XT. It should still be completely worth it for iGPUs though as AMD has fallen pretty far behind Intel in the iGPU upscaling category and this helps them catch up. It would be interesting to see a comparison of these iGPUs with upscaling enabled now that AMD iGPUs are getting something comparable to XeSS. Reply
usertests ManDaddio said: Well it's about time. But that means the Radeon used market prices are going way up now. Steam box might use fsr4 now? Is FSR4 support in enough games to justify prices going way up? Yes, the Steam Machine should have it. Possibly at launch if it comes out in July or later, or updated to have it very soon after launch. rluker5 said: The performance hit on RDNA 3,2 relative to RDNA4 will be noticeable as the 9060XT has more significantly more 8 bit than the 7900XTX , much less the 6900XT. People have already been testing FSR4 on RDNA 2/3 for months. I think the performance hit was less than expected given the major TOPS advantage RDNA4 cards have. But gamers may have to use a lower FSR4 quality level, or accept losing some FPS in exchange for better quality. Reply
mitch074 usertests said: Is FSR4 support in enough games to justify prices going way up? Yes, the Steam Machine should have it. Possibly at launch if it comes out in July or later, or updated to have it very soon after launch. People have already been testing FSR4 on RDNA 2/3 for months. I think the performance hit was less than expected given the major TOPS advantage RDNA4 cards have. But gamers may have to use a lower FSR4 quality level, or accept losing some FPS in exchange for better quality. The main problem with RDNA2's implementation wasn't speed but quality, because while RDNA3 could use INT8 in the matrix computations that RDNA4 does in FP8 for FSR4 (which can be done with little to no rounding errors), RDNA2 can't do wave matrix multiply accumulate (WMMA) at all and must rely on this being emulated on top – resulting in far more rounding errors and thus much lower quality and a much higher compute cost. Reply
usertests mitch074 said: The main problem with RDNA2's implementation wasn't speed but quality, because while RDNA3 could use INT8 in the matrix computations that RDNA4 does in FP8 for FSR4 (which can be done with little to no rounding errors), RDNA2 can't do wave matrix multiply accumulate (WMMA) at all and must rely on this being emulated on top – resulting in far more rounding errors and thus much lower quality and a much higher compute cost. Didn't hear about that but OK. If AMD is giving themselves that much more time, maybe what they'll come up with will be better than the leaked version. Reply
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