Chazore said:
At this point can we just agree that AMD is literally trying to follow in Nvidia's wrong footsteps for the worst reasons?. It was bad enough that the previous iteration wasn't going to be available for even 1000 series cards, but at this stage they're just copying Nvidia with "nope, one gen only" rule. It's amazing how we have bright minds in this side of tech, but apparently it's just "impossible" to make it happen now for more than a single gen (which feels like a convenient lie to sell the latest gen). |
I have said it before but the leadership at Radeon is full of clowns. They act like they are the "good guys" but in reality, they are completely pathetic.
FSR being available on older gpus has been nothing special because all it is, is just a traditional upscaler. A step up from TAA but games like spiderman had a similar one to FSR already in their engine. XeSS being available on older gpus on the other hand is nuts because Intel is leveraging dp4a path. While not as good as having actual Ai cores, least it's something and proven to be superior to FSR.
Radeon is cheap because they don't invest on Nvidias feature set and instead produce cheap knockoffs that require very little on going investment. Even FSR4 they likely didn't fully make it themselves and likely was a partnership with Mark Cerny. Intel on the other hand did make XeSS by themselves and made it work for every gpu including RDNA2. So while Intel does have a long way to go with their drivers, I am rooting for them to be the robinhood that Radeon pretends to be.
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