https://jntesteves.pages.dev/posts/ Recent content in Posts on jntesteves Tech Blog Hugo en-us Sat, 11 Sep 2021 12:00:00 +0000 https://jntesteves.pages.dev/posts/amd-fsr-demystified/ Sat, 11 Sep 2021 12:00:00 +0000 https://jntesteves.pages.dev/posts/amd-fsr-demystified/ <h2 id="fsr-overview">FSR overview</h2> <p>AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 1.0 (FSR) has been in the technology/gaming news for a while, but in case someone is learning of it for the first time, it&rsquo;s an open-source <strong>spatial image upscaler</strong> implemented as a &ldquo;compute shader&rdquo; (you can think of it as AMD&rsquo;s response to NVIDIA&rsquo;s DLSS, if you&rsquo;re familiar with that technology).</p> <p>Spatial in this context means that, to upscale an image, it only requires the image itself. It does not need frame history, motion vectors, a depth buffer&hellip; really, nothing else. That makes it very simple to integrate into any graphics pipeline.</p>