- NVIDIA DLSS 4 has set the bar for the FSR 4 of AMD, with its new transformer model
- The first looks at FSR 4 in performance mode are very promising
- Team Red can have difficulty competing if the entire FSR 4 package is exclusive to RDNA 4
Nvidia has impressed me with its new DLSS 4 transformer model, which provides high image and stability quality even in “performance” modes of super resolution, and now, I really hope AMD can keep up with FSR 4.
Based on my previous coverage with respect to the improvements of DLSS 4 in several games, Team Red definitely has a great task ahead of potentially competing with Nvidia in this space. At the time of writing, FSR 4 is only confirmed that it will be available in the RDNA 4 GPUs (there is still no news about whether it can be used in the RDNA 3 GPUs), so it can already be at a disadvantage against DLSS 4 in terms of their ability to serve the oldest GPUs, since the new NVIDIA expansion technology will be compatible with the GPUs far behind the RTX 2000 series.
In consideration when jumping from DLSS 4 of CNN (convolutional neuronal network) to the new superior transformer model, the games will benefit from this, particularly in cases of poor optimization, while this should not give the developers of the game an excuse to loosen In department optimization, it is difficult to deny how important it will be in the future.
The FSR 4 demonstration images of AMD are already in the nature of CES 2025, and an excellent example of this is the comparison video FSR 3.1 and FSR 4 of hardware on YouTube (available below). In the same way that Nvidia DLSS 4 impressed me with its improved visual clarity with DLSS 4 in performance mode, FSR 4 seems to continue in those same steps; Now there is no frame speed counter, so it is difficult to judge how good this will be in terms of performance, but it is certainly a good sign.
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If AMD FSR 4 approaches Nvidia DLSS 4, what does this mean in terms of competition?
In the event that FSR 4 faces DLSS 4, the only aspect that would then be retained to Team Red of the competition would be the possible exclusivity for RDNA 4. While that could be due to hardware limitations that prevented it from working in the GPUs older, once I have sustained the same frustrations with NVIDIA before with respect to the generation of DLSS 3 frames, which is exclusive to the RTX 4000 series GPUs, so the same case is applied here.
In this case, it would be an even greater omission: we are not only talking about the fact that the generation of FSR 4 frame is potentially exclusively for RDNA 4, but the entire package that also includes its super resolution technology.
As much as I want AMD to provide the necessary competition against Team Green in the GPU market, he already declared that the approach will be in the middle -range GPUs (which we still do not really have to determine with the RX 9000 series), and DLSS 4 will be Available at all RTX GPUs: if we are honest, it will not help AMD’s position in this race …
