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Captain_Yuri said:

FSR reviews are out

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The jist is that it depends on the game but Ultra Quality settings always look close to Native when upscaling to 4k while giving you 40-50% performance boost in Godfall with Ray Tracing enabled on a 6800XT. The rest of the settings heavily varies. On certain games like Anno where there isn't much motion, you can get away with Quality and lower settings. But with games like Godfall where there's lots of details, motion and etc, it gets noticeable. Upscaling to 1440p and lower is where it starts to fall apart. Ultra Quality upscaled to 1440p still looks good but anything below is a no thanks situation unless you are desperate for performance. It looks better than lower resolution in every instance though. It is also very easy to implement.

So overall, DLSS 2.0 > FSR > DLSS 1.0

Good first attempt but I'd like to see FSR being compared against other Temporal Upscaling Solutions instead of just against Native. But it is a good performance boost that will work with a ton of GPUs. If the game supports DLSS 2.0 or higher and you have RTX card, you should obviously go with that but for everyone else, FSR is a good alternative mainly at 4k.

Thanks for posting. Looks like the results are better than expected, mostly because we expected it to be garbage and it's not so bad.

Bofferbrauer2 said:

JEMC said:

Looks like Nvidia's plan to make capped GPUs to keep miners away and force the prices down is working better than AMD's plan of doing nothing.

Mining demand is strongly going down due to crackdowns in China. I think it's far more probable that the supply in Nvidia GPUs rose simply because it's main customers now broke away due to the crackdowns.

Interesting how the US are barely affected so far. According the PCPartPicker, AMD GPU prices peaked a couple weeks ago (apart from the 6700XT who just came out) and are now somewhat cheaper, while NVidia cards are all still around their peak price. Most notably down are however the old Polaris GPUs (RX 570 and 580), who really rose to ludicrous prices ( average prices for a 570 rose to $500+, 580 even over $800. The RX 580 cost about as much as an RX 6800 non-XT at the same time, which is also at ~$800) and now are finally sliding down.

I have no doubt that the recent problems with mining have a bigger impact than the limited GPUs from Nvidia did, but it's also easy to see that Nvidia prices are falling faster than AMD ones. And that faster fall could be caused, in part, because of the mining cards that are now being sold to gamers have to compete with the cheaper capped cards, resulting in that faster price drop.