Auto HDR coming to Windows

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/auto-hdr-preview-for-pc-available-today/

Sadly, I won't be surprised if AMD sells everything it makes even with that higher price.

Some more news since it's news day

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) to launch this year for PCs

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-fidelityfx-super-resolution-fsr-to-launch-this-year-for-pcs

"He confirmed that the company still has a lot of work to do and it is still evaluating the actual technology behind the upscaling algorithm."
"It is not FFS, nor it is FXSS, the actually officially acronym for NVIDIA DLSS competitor is FSR, Scott Herkelman confirmed during the interview:"
"You don’t need machine learning to do it, you can do this many different ways and we are evaluating many different ways. What matters the most to us is what game developers want to use because if at the end of the day it is just for us, we force people to do it, it is not a good outcome. We would rather say: gaming community, which one of these techniques would you rather see us implement so that this way it can be immediately spread across the industry and hopefully cross-platform."

This is certainly gonna take a while to come out by the sounds of it.


Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announces “Intel Unleashed” webcast on March 23rd

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-announces-intel-unleashed-webcast-on-march-23rd

Good to see it coming to PC. I hope to be able to enjoy it when I get a new monitor in a few years.

Given the shortages and that it looks like Nvidia wouldn't be able to catch up until 2022. yeah, they will.

It's enchouraging to see that they seem to have a plan and are going forward with it, but yeah, they need to get it ready as soon as possible. And a preview to let us know how it's going wouldn't hurt.

Yeah, at that price it's really not worth it. Should go closer to $400 if it wants to have a chance - unless stock were good and thus selling by virtue of being available. But even that's not the case, so...

I swear they are making it sound like Nvidia is holding devs at gunpoint, just to make use of DLSS and other features, at least going by the "f at the end of the day it is just for us, we force people to do it, it is not a good outcome" part.

Sounds like it'd going to take forever, and by the time it even comes out, Nvidia's going to be another step or two ahead, making their offering seem dull...again.

I think they need to spend far less time talking about spreading this and not forcing that (also less jabs), and spending more time just working on this tech that was supposed to be out around the time DLSS was. I just hate AMD talking shit and coming late to any party, and claiming next time it'll be better. Like they brought their A-game with their CPU's, just bring it with the GPU's. 

It's either that or AMD wants to absolutely avoid similar pitfalls like those that DLSS had early on, where it made the picture quality worse than just manually adjusting the resolution to get the same framerate.

Tbf since consoles are using it as well and is large market for videogames it makes sense for AMD and the games industry to push this tech to forward. And for that to happen they need to make a universal standard that will work on most if not all current RDNA hardware (including RDNA 1) and get it right out of the gate. It will take time but will add a lot of extra performance with hopefully not so much fidelity loss.

Also 6700XT (reference) is going to be £420 in the UK which is bang in the middle of the 3060Ti and 3070 and is actually quite a decent price.

AM always works that way, trying to come with something that's open source and can be used by everyone on any card. Sometimes it fails, and sometimes it works. We'll see how it goes this time around.

And how the f*ck was this supposed to come out with DLSS if they announed it during the reveal of their RDNA 2 cards back in October?

Probably a factor they're considering to avoid. I know they should also be able to see what nvidia did wrong and then corrected at the time, so they shouldn't really be repeating the same mistakes with their offering when the time comes. 

I meant in them always lagging behind. I knew it wouldn't make it on time and then there's the reveal of the RDNA 2 cards last Oct, I just wanted to say that they lag behind and that they should kinda stop doing that in their GPU dept, because it's getting oldhat now.

Also I get that it's gotta be open source for everyone to use (but we've also seen some of their stuff not playing nice in the past with Nvidia cards and vice versa for nvidia tech), but at the same time, it's going to have to contend and beat whatever Nvidia's offering. If I'm sporting a newer nvidia GPU, and AMD's offering isn't going to work as well as what nvidia has, then obv I'm not going to be impressed and opt to choose whatever AMD rolls with, and if more devs decide to roll with AMD's offering, then I'd be screwed as an nvidia owner, which is why I want AMD to not fuck it up and make it better than what nvidia is doing.