AMD Is Reportedly Working on Radeon Super Resolution ‘RSR’ Technology

If the rumor mill is to be believed, AMD is currently hard at work on a brand new type of upscaling called Radeon Super Resolution (or RSR, for short). This shouldn’t be confused with AMD’s FSR, its current — and still very much novel — rendering/upscaling technology.

FSR has been out for a little over six months and it’s been quite solid in terms of what it can do, but it’s far from spectacular and leaves a lot to be desired, especially when compared to NVIDIA’s own DLSS. FSR, capable though it is, simply isn’t a match which, in all fairness, makes sense given the fact that NVIDIA had a lot more time to work on its upscaling solution compared to AMD.

Still, it has become quite obvious that such software- and hardware-based solutions are the future of gaming; as a result, everyone’s trying to compete in this field — even Intel. The company with the most refined upscaling technology is undoubtedly going to lure in more buyers and, by proxy, generate more revenue. So it should really come as no surprise that everyone’s scrambling to one-up each other.

This is where RSR comes into play and it could, by all means, be a game-changer for AMD.

AMD RSR — Ample Potential

According to Videocardz, RSR is based on the FSR 1.0 algorithm and will supposedly work through the Radeon software driver. This basically means that developers will no longer need to implement it on the back end of things as it’ll work independently — a simple, no fuss, “plug-and-play” kind of solution.

Whether it’ll provide similar functionality to FSR or build upon its foundation still remains to be seen, but there’s definitely a reason for optimism.

AMD is expected to reveal this fascinating new technology sometime this month. It’ll be supported by RDNA and RDNA 2 graphics cards so if you have a relatively recent AMD GPU, you’ll be good to go. We don’t have a whole lot of information to sink our teeth into, but we’re bound to find out the nitty gritty details at this year’s CES (January 4th), so stay tuned!