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Cale Hunt

What is Super Resolution? NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR, Intel XeSS, and Microsoft DirectSR explained

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PC gaming refuses to slow down, and the technology behind it keeps getting better. The frames displayed on your screen are often no longer a "raw" look at your favorite game, created by your favorite graphics card. They're instead fed through numerous pipelines that make them look much sharper and clearer, while framerates also get a boost. It sounds like magic, but it's mostly Super Resolution and some accompanying technologies that rely on AI training and crafted algorithms.

At its core, Super Resolution creates an image at a lower resolution before scaling it up to fit the resolution at which your image is being displayed on your monitor. NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel all have their own versions of Super Resolution, and Microsoft recently joined in with DirectSR in an attempt to better streamline the implementation of these technologies for developers.

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