AMD's AI Upscaling Could Begin This Year

After AMD, in the person of Jack Huynh, senior vice president and general manager of the Computing and Graphics Business Group at AMD, We’ve already talked openly about the approach to “AI upscaling” FidelityFX Supersolution (“FSR”) 4 at IFA 2024 in Berlin, and now there are a few things that suggest this technology could appear this year. In addition to the fact that FSR 4, which is supposed to include, in addition to the AI ​​upscaling tool (“super resolution”), an image averaging (“frame generation”) with AI support in its feature set, has already been in the works for about a year, AMD CTO Mark Papermaster was quoted as saying in March.

We have spent many years advancing our hardware and software capabilities towards AI. We have just added AI to our entire portfolio, including cloud, edge, and PC, as well as our embedded devices and gaming consoles.

We're enabling our gaming devices to scale with AI. And 2024 is a really big year for action.

– Mark Papermaster, AMD Chief Technology Officer (“CTO”) –

It is also worth noting that, apart from upscaling (“super resolution”) and frame generation (“frame generation”), the topic is becoming increasingly important in gaming. FSr technology is also present in the field of application and graphics acceleration, which is less noticeable by gamers. FidelityFX's Ultra Precision for Professionals On the rise.

The fact that Sony has now introduced its own upscaling technology with PSSR (“Playstation Spectral Supersolution”) with the Playstation 5 Pro also suggests that FidelityFX Supersolution (“FSR”) 4 will be released this year and may take a long time to come. A similar approach.

The PSSR upgrade actually meets the two most important requirements, as it runs entirely on AMD's RDNA architecture and also uses algorithms trained with the help of artificial intelligence.

GPU architectures with AI units

It can be assumed that FSR 4 with AI Upgrade and AI Intermediate Images will be supported by the current GPU architectures RDNA 3 and CDNA 3, both of which have AI accelerators and can accelerate AI workflows in hardware without using shaders.

Radeon RX 8000: RDNA 4 in the wild for the first time

As Sony is doing with the Playstation 5 Pro, the upcoming Radeon RX 8000 series RDNA 4 graphics cards with Navi 4x could also feature a dedicated neural processor, a so-called NPU (“Neural Processing Unit”), based on XDNA 2. But this is still just speculation at this point.

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