AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 2 (FSR 2) technology is our brand-new open source temporal upscaling solution. FSR 2 uses cutting-edge temporal algorithms to reconstruct fine geometric and texture detail, producing anti-aliased output from aliased input.
FSR 2 technology has been developed from the ground up, and is the result of years of research from AMD. It has been designed to provide higher image quality compared to FSR 1, our original open source spatial upscaling solution launched in June 2021.
Note that FSR 1 can still be exposed as its own upscaling option in addition to FSR 2 in game titles. Both technologies have different characteristics which may be suitable for a wider range of platforms and user preferences. For example, our FSR 2 partner title DEATHLOOP exposes both!
Supports:
- DirectX® 12.
- Vulkan®.
- Unreal Engine 4.26/4.27 and Unreal Engine 5 as a plugin from the Unreal Marketplace.
Download the latest version - v2.1
- FSR 2.1 API for integration.
- API documentation including quick start checklist – it is strongly recommended to consult this to ensure best upscaling quality!
- Full C++ and HLSL source provided via a library.
- Samples provided for DirectX 12, and Vulkan.
This release adds the following:
- Motion vector divergence is used to diminish locked pixels, helping to alleviate ghosting issues.
- The disocclusion logic is now able to detect disocclusions in areas with only small depth separation, helping to alleviate ghosting and improving overall image quality.
- Some previously half-precision arithmetic is now full-precision, improving overall image quality and temporal stability.
- Reactive mask dilation and numerical range improvements, helping to alleviate ghosting on transparent geometry.
- Composition and transparency mask updates to help alleviate ghosting on certain kinds of geometry.
It’s time to upscale FSR 2 even further: Meet FSR 2.1!
One of our engineers shares the improvements we’ve made with AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 to ghosting, temporal stability, and more.
Unreal Engine developer?
Xbox developer?
We are really excited to share that AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 is now available within the Xbox Game Development Kit.
DirectX 11
Developers interested in using DirectX 11 should contact their AMD representative about this topic.
Features
Temporal
Anti-aliasing
High image quality
No machine learning
Cross-platform
Open source
Temporal
- Delivers similar or better than native image quality using temporal data.
Anti-aliasing
- Includes high-quality anti-aliasing.
- FSR 2 replaces any TAA within the game frame.
High image quality
- Higher image quality than FSR 1 technology at all quality presets/resolutions.
- Different quality modes available.
- Dynamic Resolution Scaling supported.
No machine learning
- Does not require dedicated Machine Learning (ML) hardware.
- More platforms can benefit.
- Gives more control to cater to a range of different scenarios.
- Better ability to optimize.
Cross-platform
- Boosts framerates in supported games.
- Wide range of products and platforms, both AMD and select competitors.
Open source
- Available here on GPUOpen under an MIT license.
How it works
General integration
As with FSR 1, FSR 2 is open source, via the MIT license. Integration should be easy, via the intuitive, flexible API. FSR 2 requires three buffers (depth, color, and velocity) be provided at render resolution, with optional reactive mask and exposure required for the best possible quality.
Bonus tip: You’ll find an easier integration for FSR 2 technology into games that already have a temporal upscaling rendering path.
Render resolution
Presentation resolution
Where to integrate FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 in a frame
Compared to FSR 1, FSR 2 is earlier in the frame pipeline.
- As it replaces TAA, any post processing that requires anti-aliased input will need to be post-upscale.
- Any post-processing effect that requires the depth buffer will need to be pre-upscale.
Render resolution
Presentation resolution
No machine learning?
Machine Learning (ML) is not a prerequisite to achieving good quality image upscaling. Often, ML-based real-time temporal upscalers use the model learned solely to decide how to combine previous history samples to generate the upscaled image: there is typically no actual generation of new features from recognizing shapes or objects in the scene. AMD engineers leveraged their world-class expertise to research, develop and optimize a set of advanced hand-coded algorithms that map such relationships from the source and its historical data to upscaled resolution.
The FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 analytical approach can provide advantages compared to ML solutions, such as more control to cater to a range of different scenarios, and a better ability to optimize. Above all, not requiring dedicated ML hardware means that more platforms can benefit, and more gamers will be able to experience FSR 2.
How long to integrate?
Integration time will vary from title to title.
Or any of our FidelityFX effects, including FSR 1?
Please take a look at our naming guidelines for advice on presenting FSR 2 in your game UI, and to obtain FidelityFX™ logo assets.
FSR 2 quality modes
There are four different quality modes: Quality, Balanced, Performance, with Ultra Performance as an optional mode. These vary the amount of scaling to apply to the source image, depending on the quality/performance ratio desired.
There’s also:
- Support for Dynamic Resolution Scaling, whereby source resolution is determined by a fixed performance budget to achieve a minimum frame rate.
- Optional configurable RCAS sharpening to help emphasize pixel detail.
- We encourage developers to provide a sharpness slider to allow end users to set the sharpening amount according to their preferences.
* Optional
FSR 2 performance
FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 is designed to boost framerates in supported games. As an advanced temporal upscaling solution, it will be more demanding on graphics cards than a spatial upscaling solution like FSR 1. Gaming experience may vary, depending on specific system specifications, the requirements of individual games that support FSR 2, and the target resolution. Nevertheless, gamers may be able to have a good upscaling experience on lower performing or older GPUs.
The table below lists the upper bound of performance overhead of FSR 2 in quality and performance modes for different classes of AMD GPUs and target resolutions.
Quality mode
- Includes auto-exposure, no sharpening.
Performance mode
- Includes auto-exposure, no sharpening.
For both quality and performance mode tables:
- AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900X @ 3.70GHz.
- Radeon™ Adrenalin 22.5.2.
- GPU as described in tables.
- Windows 11 Pro 64-bit V21H2
- DirectX 12
- Direct3D version 9.14.10.01521
Comparison images
The comparison image below (FSR 2.0) uses a 1280 x 600px 1:1 crop (zoom in if needed) of a 4K frame from the new Sponza scene from Intel®.
Note: All the embedded images shown below are JPEGs saved with minimal compression so this web page loads much faster. If you would like to view the original PNGs (including other quality modes) these are available under every image, along with links to other scenes not shown on this page. You can also download every image linked to below in this one big ZIP:
4K comparison
- Sharpening applied to FSR 2 image
1440p comparison
Our engineers have been working closely with engineers at Arkane Lyon to bring FSR 2 to DEATHLOOP™. We’re excited to bring you these lower resolution comparison screenshots. You can read more about these images on a recent AMD blog.
The two sets of comparison images¹ below are 1280 x 600px 1:1 crops (zoom in if needed) of different resolution frames taken from a development build of DEATHLOOP.
Please note: At low resolutions (under 720p), DEATHLOOP can sometimes not render certain small objects at far distances, such as the light bulbs shown in the 1080p comparison images. When targeting 1080p output, the FSR 2 internal render resolution is 1280 x 720 or below, which results in the missing objects shown here — this issue is therefore not related to FSR 2.
1080p comparison
Take a look at our latest video (September 2022) to see FSR 2.1 in action!
Find out more on our YouTube channel
FidelityFX
Super Resolution 2
FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 is AMD’s next generation upscaling technology, delivering similar or better than native image quality using temporal data.
In this talk, our engineers will first discuss how this new technology is able to significantly increase image quality, diving into some of the algorithmic aspects which enable FSR 2 to reconstruct upscaled fine details from low-resolution input images. Then, multiple optimizations implemented during development will be presented, including how FSR 2 manages cross-platform performance.
Lastly, game developers will learn valuable insight on how to integrate FSR 2 to allow for the highest visual quality upscaling at optimal performance.
A guided tour of Blackreef: Rendering technologies in DEATHLOOP
In this talk you will learn how Arkane Lyon was able to depict the deadly beauty of Blackreef thanks to their proprietary Void engine, freshly ported to DirectX 12 and full of amazing features.
Particular attention will be paid to the challenges of adding ray-tracing to the engine in an efficient manner, and how DEATHLOOP’s multiple technology advancements compare to their previous title.
Details will be provided on how Arkane and AMD worked closely together to integrate technologies and optimizations to make the game run smoothly on all platforms.
More FSR 2 blogs
You can read more from a gamer perspective over with the latest AMD.com blogs:
- GPUOpen.com – It’s time to upscale FSR 2 even further: Meet FSR 2.1!
- AMD.com – AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.1 Out Now, Even More FSR 2 Games Available and Coming Soon.
- AMD.com – AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution at One Year: 110+ Games and FSR 2.0 Now Available for Developers.
- AMD.com – AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 Now Available and Announcing Upcoming Games.
- AMD.com – AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 GDC 2022 Announcements.
Our earlier announcements:
- GPUOpen.com – It’s time for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0.
- AMD.com – Announcing and First Look at AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0.
Information about FSR 2 including our FSR 2 GDC video (with subtitles in Chinese) can also be found over on Zhihu.
Developers with games which support FSR 2 now or in the future
Watch our 1 Year of FidelityFX Super Resolution video
Related GPUOpen content
AMD FidelityFX – Super Resolution 1.0
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is our open-source, high-quality, high-performance upscaling solution.
AMD FidelityFX Naming Guidelines in Game Titles
A set of guidelines for developers on how to present options in the game’s user interface to enable/disable AMD FidelityFX Effects.
AMD FidelityFX – Testimonials
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Other AMD FidelityFX effects
AMD FidelityFX – Parallel Sort
AMD FidelityFX Parallel Sort makes sorting data on the GPU quicker, and easier. Use our SM6.0 compute shaders to get your data in order.
AMD FidelityFX – Variable Shading
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AMD FidelityFX – Denoiser
AMD FidelityFX Denoiser is a set of denoising compute shaders which remove artefacts from reflection and shadow rendering.
AMD FidelityFX – Luminance Preserving Mapper
AMD FidelityFX LPM provides an open source library to easily integrate HDR and wide gamut tone and gamut mapping into your game.
AMD FidelityFX – Stochastic Screen Space Reflections
The AMD FidelityFX SSSR effect provides an open source library to easily integrate stochastic screen space reflections into your game.
AMD FidelityFX – Combined Adaptive Compute Ambient Occlusion
AMD FidelityFX Combined Adaptive Compute Ambient Occlusion (CACAO) is an RDNA-optimized implementation of ambient occlusion.
AMD FidelityFX – Single Pass Downsampler
FidelityFX Single Pass Downsampler (SPD) provides an RDNA-optimized solution for generating up to 12 MIP levels of a texture.
Cauldron Framework
Radeon™ Cauldron is our open source experimentation framework for DirectX®12 and Vulkan®.
AMD FidelityFX – Contrast Adaptive Sharpening
AMD FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS) provides a mixed ability to sharpen and optionally scale an image.
Our other effects
FEMFX
A multithreaded CPU library for deformable material physics, using the Finite Element Method (FEM)
DepthOfFieldFX
The DepthOfFieldFX library provides a GCN-optimized Compute Shader implementation of Depth of Field using the Fast Filter Spreading approach.
GeometryFX
GeometryFX improves the rasterizer efficiency by culling triangles that do not contribute to the output in a pre-pass. This allows the full chip to be used to process geometry, and ensures that the rasterizer only processes triangles that are visible.
ShadowFX
ShadowFX library provides a scalable GCN-optimized solution for deferred shadow filtering. It supports uniform and contact hardening shadow (CHS) kernels.
TressFX
The TressFX library is AMD’s hair/fur rendering and simulation technology. TressFX is designed to use the GPU to simulate and render high-quality, realistic hair and fur.
1.DEATHLOOP screenshot game settings: “Ultra” graphics preset, DirectX® 12. AMD Radeon™ RX 6900 XT with AMD Smart Access Memory™ and FSR 2.0 “Quality”, “Balanced”, and “Performance” modes enabled (driver: AMD Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 22.2.1), AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper 3970X, 128GB DDR4 RAM, and Windows® 10 Pro Results may vary.
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Trailer: DEATHLOOP game settings: “Ultra” graphics preset with raytracing, DirectX® 12. AMD Radeon™ RX 6900 XT with AMD Smart Access Memory™ and FSR 2.0 “Quality” and “Performance” modes enabled (driver: AMD Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.50-220210a), AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900X, 16GB DDR4-3200 RAM, Qogir AM4 motherboard, and Windows® 10 Pro May 2020 update (19041.508). Results may vary.
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