Big Navi - RDNA 2.0 DLSS equivilent?

[terley]

Just a query really,

Do you GPU heads know whether the next generation of AMD GPU's have any team or group working on a similar technology to DLSS? Its clear the new chips will have some form of machine learning capabilities as we've seen auto HDR talked about on the Xbox series X using that RDNA2.0 chip..

But im really interested to see what kind of deep learning super sampling could be accomplished on team red.

Any ideas?

 

[terley]

I've heard it touted for the consoles, specifically Xbox Series X.

"But it doesn't end there. AMD and Microsoft also seem to be targeting Nvidia's DLSS technology with RDNA 2 and the Xbox Series X. If you're not familiar with DLSS, or deep learning super sampling, it's a technology that uses dedicated hardware on Turing graphics cards to upscale images through AI.


Nvidia graphics cards have dedicated Tensor cores that handle this, but AMD is taking another approach. Instead, AMD will be relying on the raw throughput of the GPU, and executing the machine learning workloads through 8- and 4-bit integer operations – much lower precision than the 32-bit operations that are typically used in graphics workloads. This should result in a huge amount of power for this up-scaling without sacrificing too much. "

https://www.techradar.com/news/xbox-series-x-specs

Personally, I am pretty sceptical. NVIDIA have took well over a year to get to the point that they are at and use tailored hardware too. I think AMD are behind the curve on this and wouldn't expect anything particularly competitive yet.

I wish their graphics division were as good as the CPU side of things but I think they're at least a year behind in technology terms.

Eventually we will probably get an implementation that sits on top of something like DirectML which works on both nVidia and AMD.

Can't say I'm a big fan of the technology personally - I'd only accept it as a compromise to get better ray tracing results in games that actually utilise RT techniques for the full gamut of their lighting features.

Thanks for the replys guys makes sense.

 

[terley]

My old thread, kind of interesting going back looking at this knowing now about FSR, FSR2, FSR3, XeSS, TSR etc etc