Beyond the confrontation on the only graphics cardsAMD and NVIDIA also disagree on super-sampling techniques.
It is a work of titan that that carried out by our colleague fromHardware Unboxed which undertook to compare the visual rendering of the two main super-sampling techniques, NVIDIA’s DLSS and AMD’s FSR.
A long-term job
In total, no less than 26 games went through our colleague’s mill. 26 games for which the tests focused on four rendering modes: 4K Quality, 4K Performance, 1440p Quality and 1440p Performance.
It was therefore a question of launching 104 different tests in order to cover all the possibilities and, in each case, to retain which of the two solutions was able to offer the best visual rendering. Note that it is therefore not a question here of evaluating the speed of animation or the fluidity of the rendering.
Visual artifacts, aliasing or popping issues were thus looked at with a magnifying glass. Hardware Unboxed an evaluation grid emerges which you can discover above.
A clear advantage for DLSS
Inevitably imperfect and despite all the efforts of Hardware Unboxedof course very subjective, this evaluation grid still has the advantage of opposing the two technologies on many games.
Moreover, Hardware Unboxed only relies on a single basis of comparison: the feeling. The conclusion is, as such, without appeal and the DLSS wins in most cases. First, we notice that at no time does the FSR seem superior to NVIDIA technology. On the contrary and apart from a few “ties”, the DLSS is sharper in 92% of cases.
In the conclusion of the video – which we invite you to watch – our colleague points out that the two technologies have progressed very significantly, but that improvements are still possible. On the DLSS side, there is still a slight ghosting while the sharpening of the image could be a little more subtle.
However, the majority of his critics, Hardware Unboxed save them for the FSR which suffers from the comparison with DLSS. First of all, FSR must produce a more stable image, particularly in the management of movements or vegetation. The question of transparency or hair is also an issue while the performance mode is not up to par.
Please note that this is only the – subjective – opinion of a tester. However, we reach quite similar conclusions on our multiple tests, even if we have not theorized the thing at the same level as our colleague.
Source : Hardware Unboxed
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