AMD FSR 3 launched last week and is already regarded as a major development in the upscaling tech world, bringing more performance to a wide variety of hardware.
In our AMD FSR 3 tests in Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum, we saw some big performance gains with FSR 3 and its frame generation feature. In certain cases, FSR 3 proved to offer higher FPS than its competitor, DLSS 3 Frame Gen with very similar image quality output at each preset despite the fact that there's no AI hardware required to run the technology. This enables FSR 3 on a wide range of hardware, not just from camp AMD but also from NVIDIA and Intel. Even consoles are expected to take full advantage of FSR 3 with upcoming support.
AMD FSR 3 supports much older GPUs too such as NVIDIA GeForce 10 series. The support is limited to just upscaling but Daniel Owens put the older GeForce GTX 1060 and GeForce GTX 1070 cards to the test and see what happened when FSR 3 Frame Generation was enabled. During his testing, he noticed that enabling FSR 3 Frame Gen did boost the overall FPS. Using the Native AA mode on a GeForce GTX 1060 GPU, he got around 20-22 FPS on average with ~200ms of latency but with the frame-gen feature enabled, the FPS boosted to 32-34, an uplift of over 50% which is great.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 - FSR 3 Native AA (Image Credits: Daniel Owens):
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 - FSR 3 Native AA With Frame Gen (Image Credits: Daniel Owens):
While technically unsupported, it looks like NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10 series and older hardware can benefit from increased FPS when AMD FSR 3 Frame Generation is enabled however the gameplay experience won't be great. With frame-gen enabled, the latency was pretty much the same around ~200ms which made the overall
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