Users are already seeing huge gains with the latest AMD upscaler on older-generation graphics cards.
Radeon RX 7900 XTX Reportedly Hits 2X Frame Rates With AMD FSR 4.1 in Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K RT Ultra
As you might know, AMD's FSR 4.1 support for the RX 7000 series dropped two days ago, and users have already started seeing huge gains in games. It's well-known that FSR 4 is more demanding than FSR 3.1, but even on the Balanced preset, games usually see much better visual fidelity than FSR 3.1 Quality. This is exactly what we are seeing in benchmarks reported by a user on Reddit.
Redditor u/Mercennarius reports seeing significant performance gains when using FSR 4.1. His setup includes the flagship RDNA 3 GPU, aka Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which delivers just 24 FPS at 4K resolution in Cyberpunk 2077 on the RT Ultra preset. When FSR 4.1 is turned on, the user saw nearly a 2X performance boost with the same settings. At 4K RT Ultra, FSR 4.1 shows its magic at Balanced preset, delivering nearly 50 FPS on average in the game.
This is already twice as high as the game can deliver at native settings without significantly affecting visual quality. With the Performance preset, FSR 4.1 helps the GPU reach over 60 FPS at 4K RT Ultra. At FSR Quality, the Redditor claims the game runs at over 40 FPS with the same settings, which is still much higher than what he is seeing at native resolution.
Remember that the RX 7900 XTX and other RDNA 3 GPUs utilize a different FSR 4.1 model than the RX 9000 series. This is because the RX 7000 series supports the INT8 model, while the RX 9000 uses FP8 FSR 4.1. However, AMD has promised that users will see similar visual fidelity in both cases despite different FSR 4.1 models.
News Source: Reddit
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