AMD has finally detailed its new version of FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR3) which also includes a new feature called Fluid Motion Frames, which acts similarly to NVIDIA's new DLSS 3 Frame Generation (FG) technology. AMD announced games that will feature built-in support for FSR3, which include Cyberpunk 2077, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and more.
During Gamescom 2023 last week, AMD showed off its new FSR3 technology running Forspoken, which was running at 4K on the Ultra High RT preset on the flagship Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card. In the demo, FSR3 was set to Performance mode which saw the frame rate skyrocket from 36FPS to 122FPS, which is a hefty 3.4x improvement in performance. That's a similar performance upgrade to DLSS 3 with FG enabled, which is mighty impressive.
If you don't want a huge performance increase and would instead like to see higher-fidelity graphics, you can enable the new mode within FSR3 dubbed Native Anti-Aliasing which sees performance also skyrocket from 64FPS to 106FPS, with better-looking graphics. Very impressive to see, but we're not finished with FSR3 just yet.
Now, we're onto some of the more exciting stuff... FSR3 is supported by not just new Radeon RX series GPUs, and not even just previous-gen Radeon RX series GPUs... but the competitors' GPUs. Better yet, not just NVIDIA's newer GeForce RTX 40 series, but the GeForce RTX 30 series and GeForce RTX 20 series are supported by FSR3. But get this... even -- gasp -- the GeForce GTX 10 series is supported! Very, very nice move there, AMD.
On the AMD side of things, if you're using FSR3 then you'll enjoy the new upscaling tech on the Radeon RX 5700 series and above, while AMD recommends the Radeon RX 6000 series and above.
When it comes to using AMD's new FSR3 with upscaling only, the company recommends the Radeon RX 590 and above, while recommending the Radeon RX 5000 series and above. NVIDIA's older-gen GeForce GTX 10 series are the supported line here, while AMD recommends the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 series and above (to be clear: this is for AMD FSR + upscaling only).
The unfortunate thing is: AMD promises FSR3 is coming soon... but we have no firm release date just yet. We should expect the new upscaling technology to be unleashed in the coming months.