FSR for PRO, upscaling accelerates design software – GinjFo

FidelityFX Super Resolution is a technology known to PC gamers. For several years, it has made it possible to increase performance by calculating the image at a lower definition before reconstructing it in a higher definition. With FSR for PRO, AMD is offering this advancement to another area: professional applications.

This variation targets design, rendering and visualization software. AMD mentions, for example, real-time architectural rendering, an area where scenes can become very heavy as soon as the models become more complex, the lighting becomes more complex or Ray Tracing is activated.

The idea is to make the workspace more fluid to allow complex scenes to be manipulated with fewer slowdowns.

The viewport becomes the new terrain of upscaling

The ability to boost the number of frames per second rendered with a professional application helps improve productivity. Indeed when the viewport drops to a few frames per second, moving a camera, inspecting a building, adjusting one or more lights or navigating in a 3D model becomes painful, long and complicated.

The FSR for PRO renders the application at a lower internal definition, then enlarges the image to the chosen output definition. AMD evokes four quality modes for output in 2560 x 1440 pixels

• Ultra Qualité,
• Qualité,
• balance,
• and Performance.

A telling example with ACCA Edificius

To illustrate the FSR for PRO AMD relies on ACCA Edificius, architectural design software. In his example, a Radeon PRO W6800 with active Ray Tracing goes from 7.0 FPS in native definition to 24.8 FPS in Performance mode.

FSR for PRO is a cross-platform solution, open source and compatible with different graphics hardware. The company also indicates support for the DirectX 11, DirectX 12 and Vulkan APIs, as well as integration into the Unreal Engine 4 and Unity engines.

FSR 4.1 also continues its journey on the player side

AMD also recalled its roadmap around FSR 4.1 on the general public side. The technology, already associated with the Radeon RX 9000, must arrive on the RDNA 3 GPUs, i.e. the Radeon RX 7000 family.

the appointment is normally set for the month of July 2026. Then its support by the RDNA 2 architecture, i.e. the Radeon RX 6000, is announced for the beginning of 2027.