[HN Gopher] AMD FSR is the building block for Apple's hybrid Met...
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       AMD FSR is the building block for Apple's hybrid MetalFX upscaling
       tech
        
       Author : CharlesW
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2023-12-16 19:37 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | FirmwareBurner wrote:
       | How does the licensing work here? Does Apple need to pay AMD
       | anything or submit their contributions back to the FSR codebase?
        
         | tadfisher wrote:
         | The license is here: https://github.com/GPUOpen-
         | Effects/FidelityFX-FSR2/blob/mast...
         | 
         | Seems to be a bog-standard permissive license.
        
       | beebeepka wrote:
       | After turning FSR on and off in Talos Principle 2, I think this
       | upscaling thing is not as bad as I expected, though lag is a bit
       | of an issue.
       | 
       | I wonder if dedicating more transistors (not fixed function) to
       | the task could improve the issue, and if so, why aren't AMD and
       | Nvidia doing it. As I understand it, the latency issue is not
       | better with leather jacket cards
        
         | wmf wrote:
         | Upscaling shouldn't add appreciable latency and might even
         | reduce latency because the frame rate is higher. Frame
         | generation (which is not what the article is about) necessarily
         | adds latency which is why people recommend only enabling it at
         | high frame rates.
        
           | FirmwareBurner wrote:
           | _> might even reduce latency because the frame rate is
           | higher_
           | 
           | Higher FPS doesn't automatically mean lower latency.
           | 
           | You can have high FPS but higher latency too.
        
             | beebeepka wrote:
             | sli and crossfire. Double the cost and higher fps for equal
             | or negative latency gains.
             | 
             | at least in talos 2 and highest quality fsr, 120 fps feels
             | like 70, maybe 80.
        
       | mugivarra69 wrote:
       | they will use it to proto and then dump.
        
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