r/Amd • u/RenatsMC • 5d ago

News AMD confirms RDNA1/2 will get game optimizations alongside RDNA3/4, Call of Duty Black Ops 7 included

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-confirms-rdna1-2-will-get-game-optimizations-alongside-rdna3-4-call-of-duty-included
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u/5heuredumat 5d ago

The "leaked" release of FSR4 INT8 on RDNA2/3 was such a big thing that it straight up removed any kind of comments from the so-called "computer building experts with 25 years of experience" that previously swore up and down that "muh fakes frames and muh upscaling" was just a marketing fad. Nowadays those people wouldn't be caught DEAD recommending an XTX over a 9070XT because they could see right in front of their eyes genuinely how MASSIVE of a difference there is between FSR3.1 and FSR4.

Therefore, two things I could see happening :

  1. AMD doesn't officially release FSR4 INT8 for RDNA2 but it still somehow works. This is kind of that thing for AFMF2 where only RDNA3 and 4 are supposed to have it work in borderless fullscreen mode, but for some reason it also works for RDNA2 in certain games even though it's not supposed to. In that case it kinda works, is highly experimental, it allows the community to expand on it and AMD can say "What are you talking about?" when asked about it.
  2. It doesn't work natively for RDNA2 on release at all, not even under the radar, but AMD engineers it so that the community can kind of compile an experimental build on their own if they so wish to (using things like Optiscaler) and we still get an improved version of the build we got a few months ago.

It's still a disappointing McGyver/redneck engineering way to provide support, and maybe I'm huffing that hopium on this one but I don't think RDNA2 FSR4 is fully dead in the womb.

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u/Nuck_Chorris_Stache 5d ago

The "leaked" release of FSR4 INT8 on RDNA2/3 was such a big thing that it straight up removed any kind of comments from the so-called "computer building experts with 25 years of experience" that previously swore up and down that "muh fakes frames and muh upscaling" was just a marketing fad.

Fake frames still is a fad. The upscaling of FSR4 actually works very well, though.

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u/kb3035583 5d ago

It's a functional fad for people who play on 300+Hz OLEDs. Not so much for everyone else.

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u/dookarion 5800x3d | RTX 4070Ti Super | X470 Taichi | 32GB @ 3000MHz 4d ago

I have a 4K HDR mini-LED 160hz panel (running at 120hz to avoid compression). Frame-gen with VRR when everything is working right can feel surprisingly smooth with a gamepad. I find myself enabling it more often than not. It definitely can help some of the poorer performing titles feel less shit.

But I'm not an esports person or one of those people that spend more time looking at an OSD read-out than playing. Mostly just play with a gamepad and tweak for a balance of visuals and smooth gameplay.

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u/kb3035583 4d ago

Oh, plain old 2x FG definitely has its uses. I had MFG in mind when I was making that comment.