So I think you’re missing the biggest piece here. The driver level stuff is very crude and low level right now. It’s stripped fsr1 (We’re at 3.1) and Frame Gen. If any game you’re playing supports it, always use fsr as your first choice. These new unreal 5 games are going to be very hard to run, but if senua has fsr then putting that on performance mode and setting everything to medium should get you 60fps with your rig. Answer from C-zom on reddit.com
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r/newworldgame on Reddit: PSA: If you have an AMD graphics card, Radeon Super Resolution works and is wonderful
November 8, 2022 -
The difference is astounding.
You can set game to 1080p, GPU will do in-driver upscaling to your display's native resolution with little to no loss of FPS.
Set to 1440p with everything on 'very high' my FPS averages around 48
Set to 1080p with RSR upscaling to 1440p with everything on 'very high' (visually about the same if not better with Radeon image sharpening) my FPS averages around 80.
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for nvidia users, we have "Image scaling" inside control panel. Have not tried it yet, forgot it existed. Game works fine, but i will try it tonight to check if this will, atleast partially, solve the texture shimmering. edit: it does help with the AA shimmering, but for me it feels odd it keeps my gpu usage at 50-60% instead of the usual 90% tho (fps capped at 80, idk why 80. i like 80)
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Thanks for the tip. I'll have to give it a try. Haven't used it before.
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AMD Radeon™ Super Resolution
February 23, 2024 - Radeon™ Super Resolution is powered by FSR and is ideal for any game where FSR may not be present.
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TechPowerUp
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AMD Radeon Super Resolution RSR Quality & Performance Review | TechPowerUp
AMD Radeon Super Resolution RSR Quality & Performance
Today, AMD released their Radeon Super Resolution Technology. RSR is the magic bullet to achieve higher framerates in ALL games; it works on the driver-level, so no special game is support needed, it just works, even on older titles. We've tested it in several games, and the image quality is ... Today, AMD released their Radeon Super Resolution Technology. RSR is the magic bullet to achieve higher framerates in ALL games; it works on the driver-level, so no special game is support needed, it just works, even on older titles. We've tested it in several games, and the image quality is very impre
Pixio Gaming
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Need More Frames? Unleashing the Power of AMD Radeon Super Resolution – Pixio
April 27, 2023 - In conclusion, AMD Radeon Super Resolution is a game-changer for PC gamers, offering improved performance and enhanced visuals without the need for high-end hardware. By enabling RSR, you can breathe new life into your gaming experience and ...
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r/Amd on Reddit: ELI 5, AMD Super Resolution and its benefits
April 11, 2022 -
Its supposedly upscaling the picture to a higher resolution so you're getting the visual quality of, say, 4K but the framerate of 1080p or even lower resolutions. So I get this thing improves my performance with little to know sacrifice in quality.
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Does a game have to specifically support this Super Resolution tech? Or is it likely it works on a lot of older games that could stand to have a boost?
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When I have this feature enabled I notice I can select resolutions well above the native for my monitor? Is there any benefit from doing so or should I set the resolution to native and enjoy performance? I game primarily on a 1080p Freesync monitor.
I thought about putting this in the tech support thread but nothing is broken, I just want to know if I'm using a feature correctly.
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AMD Virtual Super Resolution: Renders at higher than native resolution to then downscale to the native resolution in order to improve detail and antialiasing through brute forcing. Use it when you have plenty of extra GPU performance left and you want a better image quality. AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution: Spatial upscaling technique rendering at lower than native resolution in order to improve performance while trying to maintain as much of the original quality as possible. (And it does suffer as a result from it) Use it when you need a higher framerate and don't have access to a temporal upscaler (DLSS, FSR 2.0, XeSS). AMD Radeon Super Resolution: "FidelityFX Super Resolution" implemented at a driver level; It's always going to be worse than FSR, because it will affect HUD, menus, and implemented after Post Processing part of the rendering pipeline. Use it when you don't have access to in-game implementations of FidelityFX Super Resolution.
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Unlike FSR, Its not game related, its a driver addition so you can open it at any game. To use it, you should set a lower resolution than your monitor's native resolution to see benefits. It will upscale your game's resolution to your monitor's native resolution. Game has to be at fullscreen mode at most games.
Overclockers UK
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Radeon Super Resolution - Experiences, Screenshots/Comparisons, FAQs etc | Overclockers UK Forums
March 19, 2022 - Unfortunately the hit to UI quality is too much for me, I'll stick to simple res scale + CAS where FSR isn't implemented. I do think it does a good job tho; I tried RSR in No Man's Sky because even though the game has FSR you can't use it in HDR for whatever reason, and I'd say that in order to get the image quality of RSR 1080p -> 4K, you really need closer to 65%-70% resolution scale without RSR.
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r/radeon on Reddit: Has anybody used amd super resolution?
October 20, 2024 -
I am new , How are the visuals at 1440p and the overall experience?
Is it possible to scale 720p to 2k?
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So I think you’re missing the biggest piece here. The driver level stuff is very crude and low level right now. It’s stripped fsr1 (We’re at 3.1) and Frame Gen. If any game you’re playing supports it, always use fsr as your first choice. These new unreal 5 games are going to be very hard to run, but if senua has fsr then putting that on performance mode and setting everything to medium should get you 60fps with your rig.
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The one that's driver based? I tried upscaling from 1080p to 1440p with my 7700xt in gta and it looked pretty 💩. obviously this being gta even native 1440p 2x msaa looks bad in some scenarios. (The edges look bad) In games where there's upscaling built in they look good and I can't complain
Asus
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FSR vs RSR vs RIS: Using the ROG Ally's upscaling and sharpening features
February 27, 2024 - FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is an in-game feature that renders your game at a lower resolution, then intelligently scales it up, boosting performance while preserving excellent image quality. Radeon Super Resolution (RSR) is a driver-level upscaling feature that can boost performance even in games that don’t offer FSR.
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r/radeon on Reddit: AMD Radeon Super Resolution
January 19, 2025 -
Is the super resolution feature really worth it? Current gpu is rx 6600xt.
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You mean the driver level RSR? The only time you should turn that on is if FSR2 or FSR3 isn't available in a game. It's better than settings your game to play at just 1080p on a 1440p or 4k screen. But it's a last resort if you have a high resolution monitor your GPU can't push. I also found it really annoying to use. You have to turn it on in the AMD settings, then launch the game at like a lower resolution, and then undo it all when starting another game I believe. Unless you can set up a profile to only act like this for some games. These days 95% of games launch with FSR3 support, so there is no almost real reason to use RSR anymore. Maybe I'd use it for Indiana Jones at 1440p if I had my 6600xt still. But that's getting FSR3 eventually. Or if I had a 4k TV and played on there with a 6600xt.
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r/radeon on Reddit: AMD Super Resolution not doing much
March 21, 2022 -
I was testing around with the new feature a little bit and was hoping for noticeable better performance while losing not too much image quality.
When it comes to image quality it is doing really well in my opinion. Can't complain on that aspect.
But performance wise it is not doing much, if anything at all on my end. I expected like 10 or 20 fps more like I've seen in a lot of videos but for me it is mostly the same than just regular 1080p.
I tried 1600x900 and 1280x720 both looked good but I was only getting 5 FPS more than before.
I tested it in a lot of different games: Lost Ark, CP2077, Rocket League, just to name a few. Am I doing something wrong or why is it doing so much less than in the Videos I saw?
Hardware Canucks
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AMD Radeon Super Resolution Is Great But… | Hardware Canucks
March 18, 2022 - With the original FSR, it was all frame by frame. It took the low res image, upscaled it, and applied their edge reconstruction and Contrast adaptive sharpening. It was nice, but if you started from a super-low resolution like in performance mode, it looked like garbage.
Tom's Hardware Forum
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AMD's Virtual Super Resolution... Use it or no? | Tom's Hardware Forum
June 23, 2017 - Maybe a dumb question, but did you select the higher resolution in-game, after enabling VSR in Radeon settings? ... I've used it without any issues - in terms of it actually working for me. But image quality results varied from game to game. In BF4, super sampling to 4K on a 1440p and 1080p monitor I really saw a big improvement in image quality.
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AMD Radeon Super Resolution is FSR-style upscaling for almost any game | Rock Paper Shotgun
March 17, 2022 - Big performance improvements in exchange for only a minor drop in visual quality, if any at all? Yes please and thank you. Nvidia’s DLSS has established itself as the gold standard of upscalers, outperforming AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), but the Radeon makers are now readying two new offerings: FSR 2.0 and Radeon Super Resolution (RSR).
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Radeon Super Resolution Tested - Is this AMD's new Killer Feature? - OC3D
December 1, 2022 - Yes, as both FSR and RSR are use the same upscaling algorithm, and no because RSR is a driver-level feature and FSR is a game-level feature. With FidelityFX Super Resolution, game developers an integrate AMD’s upscaling solution into an idea part of a game’s rendering pipeline. This allows things like your game’s user interface (UI) to be rendered at your screen’s native resolution, and for the image to be upscaled before some post processing features. Radeon Super Resolution (RSR) uses fully rendered frames and upscales them to a higher resolution.
PCWorld
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AMD Adrenalin: Radeon Super Resolution arrives to speed up your games | PCWorld
March 17, 2022 - You’ll need to play around a little bit to figure out a resolution that looks good by your eye while still providing a solid speed boost. Keith May took a deeper look at Radeon Super Resolution for PCWorld’s YouTube channel in the video posted above. He shows the speed gains and image quality impact of using RSR at a variety of resolutions in several games, so you can see its chops with your own eyes.
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AMD RSR vs. FSR: What's the difference, and which should you use? | PCWorld
April 7, 2022 - Using a Radeon VII graphics card? Yep, that works. How about an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti? That’ll work with FSR, too. AMD’s FSR supports a wide range of graphics cards, including GeForce GPUs from rival Nvidia. ... FSR is still technically superior, but RSR is based on the same underlying algorithm.
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So how good does AMD super resolution work? Is gaming at 1080p on a 1440p monitor with this significantly better than gaming on a 1080p monitor native?
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Look Out, DLSS! First Tests: AMD's Game-Boosting Radeon Super Resolution | PCMag
March 22, 2022 - But keep in mind that RSR was regularly the winner in kicking up frame rates when it was applied, versus native resolution testing. Though RSR, to our eyes, may lose this particular subjective-quality battle, we've also gathered that AMD's next rollout of the underlying FSR algorithm for RSR, FSR 2.0, is just around the corner. Once RSR is backed by FSR 2.0, Nvidia may need to come up with something quick to bridge the several-thousand-game moat that AMD will have put between itself and Big Green's front lawn with little more than a software update. Radeon owners could be happy campers if FSR 2.0 ups the quality level significantly, and RSR benefits.