It’s taken some time to get right here, however AMD’s long-awaited FSR 3 know-how will lastly make its debut in September, aiming to drastically enhance efficiency in video games that assist it.

AMD first teased FSR 3 all the way in which again in November, sizzling on the heels of Nvidia’s DLSS 3. DLSS 3 leverages the tensor cores in RTX 40-series graphics playing cards to insert AI-generated frames between each historically rendered body, which tremendously will increase body charges and visible fluidity. AMD’s FSR 3 is powered by “Fluid Motion Frames” know-how that accomplishes the same objective, however utilizing extra conventional body interpolation moderately than machine studying. It doesn’t require devoted AI {hardware} like DLSS 3.

That lets FSR 3 run on many graphics playing cards and platforms alike — a key objective for AMD, whose APUs energy the Xbox Series S/X and PlayStation 5 as nicely. AMD designed the open-source FSR 3 to be simple for sport builders to incorporate throughout all these platforms in addition to the PC, and the know-how is anticipated to be made open supply like prior FSR implementations. FSR 3 will run on any Radeon graphics card from the RX 5000 sequence onward, or equal competitor GPUs, however AMD recommends utilizing extra trendy Radeon RX 6000 and 7000 graphics playing cards for the perfect efficiency.

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Speaking of efficiency, AMD gave a touch of what to anticipate from FSR 3 within the sport Forspoken, which can be a part of Immortals of Aveum in debuting FSR 3 integration in September. With FSR 2’s Super Resolution upscaling on and AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames lively, Forspoken’s efficiency leaped from 36 frames per second at 4K with ultra-high ray tracing on all the way in which to 122fps. Wowza.

FSR 3 additionally prompts Radeon Anti-Lag+ to assist fight the latency added by the inserted frames, equally to how Nvidia requires DLSS 3 video games to incorporate Nvidia Reflex. With DLSS 3, the mixture helps video games turn out to be barely extra responsive, however nowhere close to as reflexive as you’d anticipate given the large body charge enhance — as a result of these inserted frames can’t reply to your inputs like the conventional ones do. I’d anticipate FSR 3 to carry out equally.

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Also like DLSS 3, AMD’s FSR 3 offers you the choice to activate Fluid Motion Frames with out turning on the Super Resolution characteristic, utilizing your sport’s chosen anti-aliasing mode as a substitute. Doing so helps you to benefit from the body charge increase Fluid Motion Frames supplies, however with out the additional efficiency increase (and potential small visible downgrades) that upsampling supplies.

Several different video games are scheduled to combine FSR 3 sooner or later, together with heavy-hitters like Cyberpunk 2077, Warhammer 40K: Space Marine II, and Frostpunk 2. The know-how may even be accessible as an Unreal Engine plugin quickly, which ought to actually throw open the flood gates for sport assist.

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So that’s what you could find out about FSR 3 when it arrives in September. Developers might want to implement it in video games. But right here’s a cool twist: AMD can run its Fluid Motion Frames know-how at a driver stage, letting it work with just about each trendy sport in your library. Now that’s thrilling!

AMD plans to combine Fluid Motion Frames into its new performance-boosting Hyper-RX feature, which is launching on September 6. The Fluid Motion Frames received’t be in there to start out, however will likely be added within the coming months. AMD additionally introduced the Radeon RX 7700 XT and 7800 XT, a pair of graphics playing cards focusing on quick 1440p efficiency.