- Nvidias DLSS 4 has set the bar to AMD’s FSR 4 with its new transformer model
- The first one looks at FSR 4 in performance mode is very promising
- Hold red can fight to compete if the whole package with FSR 4 is exclusive for RDNA 4
Nvidia has impressed me with its new DLS 4 Transformer model, which provides great image quality and stability, even with super resolution ‘Performance’ modes -and now I really hope that AMD can follow FSR 4.
Based on my previous coverage regarding DLSS 4’s improvements across multiple games, Team Red certainly has a big task ahead with potentially competing with Nvidia in this room. At the time of writing, FSR 4 is only confirmed to be available on RDNA 4 GPUs (no news yet about whether it can be used on RDNA 3 GPUs), so it can already be in a disadvantage against DLSS 4 with regard to its capacity to caters to older GPUs as Nvidia’s new upscaling technology will be compatible with GPUs back to the RTX 2000 series.
Taking into account DLSS 4’s jump from CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) to the new, superior transformer model, games will benefit from this, especially in case of poor optimization – while this should not give game developers an excuse to relax in the optimization department , It is difficult to deny how important it will move forward.
Demo recordings of AMDS FSR 4 are already out in the wild from CES 2025, and a good example of this is the hardware that has not been boxed FSR 3.1 and FSR 4 comparison video on YouTube (available below). Just as Nvidia’s DLSS 4 impressed me with its improved visual clarity with DLSS 4 in Performance Mode, FSR 4 seems to follow in the same footprints – now there is no image speed counter, so it is difficult to judge how good this condition will be performance, but it is definitely a good sign.
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If AMDS FSR 4 comes close to Nvidia’s DLSS 4, what does it mean what about competition?
In the event that FSR 4 goes toe to toe with DLSS 4, the only aspect that would then hold Team Red Back from Competing on Older GPUs I once had the same frustrations with Nvidia before regarding DLSS 3’s framework generation that is exclusive to the RTX 4000 series GPUs – so the same case applies here.
In this case, it would be an even greater omission – we are not only talking about FSR 4’s Frame Gen, which is potentially exclusive for RDNA 4, but the whole package, which also includes its super resolution technology.
As much as I definitely want AMD to deliver the necessary competition against Team Green in the GPU market, it already said that the focus will be on the middle class GPUs (which we do not really decide with the RX 9000 series), and DLSS 4 will be available on all RTX GPUs – If we’re honest, it doesn’t help AMD’s position in this race …
