Steam Deck may get a performance boost thanks to AMD

the steam surface It’s about 1 year old, and the system has completely transformed Handheld The gaming landscape is upside down. while others love Ayaneu In the beginning I beat Valve hard, and it was the Steam Deck that put laptops into gamers’ hands.

Powered by the AMD RDNA2 “Aerith” custom APU, the system is purpose-built to handle just about anything from retro games to high-end AAA games like Basic armor 6 And Baldur’s Gate 3. While Valve has stated that Steam Deck 2 may be out for a while, a new feature AMD announced today could help extend the Steam Deck’s lifespan significantly.

FSR 3 brings with it the frame creation feature, which was previously limited to DLSS 3 on RTX 40 series cards. While AMD unveiled the RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT, FSR 3 was shown in all its glory.

Speaking with Dexerto, AMD confirmed the following:

“AMD FSR 3 is an open technology that does not require machine learning (ML) hardware, allowing it to be supported on a wide range of products and platforms, including consoles. It is supported on AMD RDNA 1 architecture-based graphics cards and later devices (or equivalent competing hardware), but we recommend use with RDNA 2 and RDNA 3-based graphics cards. It is also supported on a wide range of competing solutions, including NVIDIA graphics cards GeForce RTX 20, 30 and 40 Series.“

Guess what’s the brave mobile device that uses the RDNA 2-based APU? the steam surface of the valve.

Update: AMD notes that it’s best to use frame generation when running at at least 60 FPS for an “optimal, low latency” experience. But that doesn’t mean Steam Deck won’t be able to use FSR 3, just that its impact may be less noticeable on lower-end hardware.

FSR 3 doesn’t always need developer support

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AMD also announced the first titles to use AMD’s upcoming FSR feature: prophesied And Immortals of Aviumwith many other titles incl Cyberpunk 2077 Get the feature soon. It is very similar to FSR 2 and other supersampling methods.

AMD has also confirmed this starfield You will not get FSR 3 at launch.

However, once new titles start adopting the new technology, this can improve the performance of the Steam Deck, and any other modern system that has a graphics chip much faster.

When combined with the ultra-high resolution features of FSR 2, AMD notes that it increased the 4K performance of Forspoken by 108%.

While we don’t expect a big jump for the Steam Deck and other mobile devices, such as Ayano 2sit can help even the most stressful games run more smoothly on mobile devices, giving them a new lease of life just as their luster begins to fade for many gamers.

AMD also announced that FSR 3 will be coming to HYPR-RX, allowing it to run on any older game using DirectX 11 and DirectX 12. They plan to introduce this in the first quarter of 2024.

We can only hope that more developers choose to adopt FSR 3 in their titles, as it will benefit just about everyone. modern computer Or game consoles capable of playing games.