AMD FSR 4.1 Announced For Xbox Series X|S And ROG Xbox Handhelds

That has been rumored for a while, but that is a huge get for the console. Should smooth out a lot of games. Wish it would have been ready in time for this years state of great games. But happy to see it’s finally on the way. Series Consoles keep getting better by the week and months.

Huge news. I've used optiscaler on Rog ally z1e in a couple of games and even that unofficial version is transformative at 1.5 scaling factor.

(Also hoping it comes to Rog ally officially...)

For series X, we just got more 60 FPS opportunities people!

This is really big news, much bigger than it might seem at first glance, especially for the Series S and Ally X.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what Xbox Helix has in store, I have a hunch they're working on something similar to DLSS5, but different...

It's about time Xbox got in on the upscaler party, my guess would be it'll be much closer to QSSR than PSSR given the AI performance of the Xbox consoles but a nice boost nonetheless and particularly for Series S which often has poor image quality

I was certain Xbox would get its own upscaler. Nice!

... So xbox is behind ps qssr and pssr2.0 ? I thought series X can have FULL FSR 4.1 so xbox can be better than sony SR has. Am I wrong or right ?

@Coletrain Fine but does sony has it first? I read before than series X is capable of getting full fsr4.1 because of full RDNA2.0 but now I am confused. I thought xbox can be ahead of ps5 but now I dont know what to think

Interesting. Look forward to see what impact this actually has on games. The recent PS5 demos for their implementation had me squinting to try notice any improvements.

Would be more interested to see this leveraged in ways that allow more persistent frame rates than an attempt at increasing resolution.

Awesome news. Idgaf about the handheld stuff but having better image quality on Series X would be fantastic, and this just might keep the S from getting any blurrier and uglier.

Very exciting to see, this year really has been a breath of fresh air for us Xbox console owners after feeling abandoned for 2 years.

Can someone explain if this can be applied retroactively to older titles, or is this only new titles that developers need to support it?

I will be amazed if it’s near to PSSR2.0 or DLSS best AI hardware based upscalers.

It will help a little but until we get Helix with hardware based AI upscalers series consoles will be behind PS5 Pro.

It’s just fact. Just like series console VRR is hardware based and has built in LFC which is better than PS5.

@strzelec clearly better than QSSR . Recent Digital Foundry tests of QSSR show that it's largely a gimmick. The difference is almost imperceptible to the naked eye and is only really noticeable when zooming in on the image.

The Xbox Series consoles feature a more complete implementation of RDNA 2 than the PS5. As for PSSR 2, recent tests suggest that it has become very close to FSR 4 and DLSS 4.5, but it still doesn't quite match them. Here we're talking about FSR 4.1, which on paper should logically be even more capable than PSSR 2.

That said, the comparison is difficult because PSSR 2 currently exists only on the PS5 Pro, which is significantly more powerful than a Series X. As a result, image quality comparisons don't always reflect the capabilities of the upscaling technologies alone, since hardware differences also come into play.

When it comes to value for money, however, the PS5 Pro currently costs around $1,400 in some markets, which is simply absurd. The Xbox Series S is arguably the best value proposition available today, and now it has the added benefit of support for FSR 4.1 as well.

We'll probably get some tests once it's officially released.

@strzelec I don't know enough about QSSR other than what Digital Foundry had a look at. Seems to function well at a 1440p output.

FSR4.1 however is great. You can see on Jack Huynh's video what it does. Basically it's better than FSR3 quality setting whilst doing it in performance, similar frame rate but much more sharp and stable image.

Wishful thinking here but putting it into something like FF7 rebirth of High on Life 2 should basically clean them both up at 60fps

@fatpunkslim So will xbox 4.1 fsr be better than ps5 or not. YES or NO

@fatpunkslim with PSSR2 where it really shines is taking a sub-1080p image and making it 4k. We shouldn't expect quite the same from FSR4.1 on series X because it has much lower hardware acceleration capabilities (although better than a ps5 does)

But it should clean up aliasing significantly! And I think can allow for great 60fps experiences if developers are willing to optimise for it