It is Lanczos applied before post-processing, with some tweaking (lower precision and faster approximations for some operations and avoiding certain artifacts).Wait - it's really just Lanczos?
You know, I've never actually seen anyone compare NVIDIA's upscaling options - because you'd need to use a capture card rather than being able to take a screenshot.
The "NVIDIA Quality upscaling" option in Profile Inspector (which has been there for years) is apparently also Lanczos, and NVIDIA say that Turing GPUs were updated to use a 5-tap/32-phase scaler (with some G-Sync monitors having a 6-tap/64-phase scaler).
Perhaps this is something Dictator could look into?
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Wow. I mean, obviously it has the advantage of being integrated into games so that it can be applied at a more optimal stage in the image processing pipeline, but that sounds like it could be using worse scaling than what has been built into NVIDIA GPUs for years - and largely ignored.It is Lanczos applied before post-processing, with some tweaking (lower precision and faster approximations for some operations and avoiding certain artifacts).
AMD FidelityFX FSR Source Code Released & Updates Posted, Uses Lanczos under the Hood
AMD today in a blog post announced several updates to the FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) technology, its performance enhancement rivaling NVIDIA DLSS, which lets gamers dial up performance with minimal loss to image quality. To begin with, the company released the source code of the...www.techpowerup.com
We talked about this on our internal channels about it being Lanczos - it is pretty curious how FSR presentation is on the Advances in Real-Time Rendering at Siggraph for being something so... Well historically founded already. Unless there is something I am not seeing about it where the large and informative Innovation is.Wait - it's really just Lanczos?
You know, I've never actually seen anyone compare NVIDIA's upscaling options - because you'd need to use a capture card rather than being able to take a screenshot.
The "NVIDIA Quality upscaling" option in Profile Inspector (which has been there for years) is apparently also Lanczos, and NVIDIA say that Turing GPUs were updated to use a 5-tap/32-phase scaler (with some G-Sync monitors having a 6-tap/64-phase scaler).
Perhaps this is something Dictator could look into?
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Well there's the fact that at least 20 games will be getting it by the end of the year now when AMD has done the work and provided the code and SDK.
I think it could make for an interesting comparison to see how FSR compares to NVIDIA's GPU scaling.
I still maintain that consoles are fine as they are with their approach to reconstruction and FSR or even a new TAAU solution won't have any impact on them since they are using CBR and TAAU for many years now. It may benefit smaller indie titles to a degree but these aren't usually heavy on the graphics side anyway and tend to run on 3rd party engines which have their own reconstruction solutions.
The thing is, consoles have been working on ways to upscale their image to 4k for years now, many of which work much better than FSR. Checkerboarding, like you said, which is used in those isomaniac games. And UE5's Temporal upscaling is really impressive too.
I'm pretty sure Insomniac *don't* user checkerboarding for their reconstruction technique (although they were using checkerboarding in their RT optimizations). I have zero complaints with how their games that use it look though.
