Hope for gamers NVIDIA left behind: AMD announces FSR 3.1 with standalone frame generation and enhanced visual quality

[Redaktion]

AMD has announced the next update to the FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) image upscaling tech with visual quality improvements, new APIs, and added support for Xbox GDK and Vulkan. However, FSR 3.1's biggest new feature is the separation of FSR 3 frame generation component from the image upscaler.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Hope-for-gamers-NVIDIA-left-behind-AMD-announces-FSR-3-1-with-standalone-frame-generation-and-enhanced-visual-quality.815570.0.html

[Hotz]

I thought AMD Frame Generation was already decoupled from FSR3? The GTX 1650 could also use their Frame Generation.

[Abc]

And what FX, XTX even mean?

[Reader]

Why are you adding photos and videos of FSR 2.0 to an article about FSR 3.1... The difference between 2.x and 3.0 is enormous!

[vertigo]

Why are you adding photos and videos of FSR 2.0 to an article about FSR 3.1... The difference between 2.x and 3.0 is enormous!

It says it right in the article:

"FSR 2, which handles the image upscaling in FSR 3, pales in comparison to DLSS when it comes to visual quality. For instance, Digital Foundry has shown that FSR 2 exhibits more ghosting, flickering, and aliasing than DLSS, especially, in the Performance mode which is arguably the most important setting."

FSR 3 is basically just FG (frame-gen) and latency reduction (anti-lag) added onto FSR 2's upsampling, which is generally regarded as crap. So the photo is there to show that. The whole point of this is that unlike FSR 3 where these two components are inseparably combined, FSR 3.1 both decouples them and improves the upsampling to try and resolve these issues, which many users have been complaining about for a long time. From my understanding of the issue, these are both things that are huge and should go a long, long way toward making both AMD and non-AMD GPU users happy.