One of the Steam Deck’s best features just came to an AMD GPU near you

theverge.com:

Valve’s Steam Deck has a lot of cool tricks up its sleeves — but one of them wasn’t exclusive to the gaming handheld PC for long. You know how the Steam Deck can turn on FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling for any game of your choice, no need for the game’s developers to formally offer support? As promised, AMD just brought that same driver-level version of the framerate-boosting tech to every Radeon RX 5000-series or newer graphics card as “Radeon Super Resolution.”

Today, you’ll be able to download the new AMD Adrenalin drivers, turn on the in-game overlay with Alt + R, and lower your game’s render resolution to theoretically get a big framerate boost in most games — at the expense of some quality, of course. (It makes a lot more sense when your GPU isn’t potent enough on its own, which is why the Steam Deck is such a good example.)

But even if your GPU is plenty powerful, AMD might have something to keep your attention; the company’s teasing a new version of FSR today that might actually trade blows with Nvidia. FSR 2.0 now uses temporal upscaling (like Nvidia’s superior DLSS) to provide more quality at higher framerates than ever before — and the surprise is that unlike Nvidia DLSS, AMD isn’t requiring a new chip with dedicated machine learning cores to make it work.

AMD says FSR 2.0 will even work on competitors’ graphics chips.

The company isn’t sayingexactly how that’s possible quite yet, but here’s a statement from AMD software product management director Glen Matthews to The Verge:

While machine learning (ML) is one vehicle to solve a number of problems, it is not a requisite to achieve good quality upscaling and FSR 2.0 does not use ML. Therefore, FSR 2.0 does not require dedicated ML hardware — so that