AMD Working on an AI-powered FSR

[John Elden Ring]

AMD CTO Mark Papermaster confirmed that AMD is working on a new upscaling technology that leverages AI. A key technological difference between AMD FSR and competing solutions NVIDIA DLSS and Intel XeSS, has been AMD's remarkable restraint in implementing AI in any part of the upscaler's pipeline. Unlike FSR, both DLSS and XeSS utilize AI DNNs to overcome temporal artifacts in their upscalers. AMD Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs and Ryzen 7000 CPUs are the first with accelerators or ISA that speed up AI workloads; and with the RX 7000 series capturing a sizable install-base, AMD is finally turning to AI for the next generation of its FSR upscaling tech. Papermaster highlighted his company's plans for AI in upscaling technologies in an interview with No Priors.

To a question by No Priors on exploring AI for upscaling, Papermaster responded: "2024 is a giant year for us because we spent so many years in our hardware and software capabilities for AI. We have just completed AI-enabling our entire portfolio, so you know cloud, edge, PCs, and our embedded devices, and gaming devices. We are enabling gaming devices to upscale using AI and 2024 is a really huge deployment year." In short, Papermaster walked the interviewer through the 2-step process in which AMD is getting into AI, with a hardware-first approach.

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[ToTTenTranz]

It's been known for a while that AMD was working on upscale tech assisted by neural networks. They first applied for a patent on this back in 2020:

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That news also gets some stuff wrong, like the RX7000 GPUs being the first with ISA for accelerating AI tasks (RX6000 already supports DP4a and IIRC even some RDNA1 chips had it). Associating the matrix units in Phoenix APUs to this capability doesn't seem right, as those are in there only for ultra low-power applications, i.e. video filters in Microsoft Teams while spending as little power as possible.

This is just the base diagram for FSR3. There's no neural network working there.

 

[flaccidsnake]

By the time this rolls out, maybe a few games will have FSR3.

 

[ethomaz]

Welcome to what people expected when AMD launched FSR and felt heavy disappointed with DLSS competitor (that was already at version 2).

 

[AllBizness]

AMD stock price went to the moon on Friday, the market is excited for their AI potential.

Edit: AMD stock up another 3% today