AMD’s FSR 2.0 is John Henry versus Nvidia DLSS’s machine learning

The image-quality battle brewing between AMD and Nvidia is heating up. And this week, the back-and-forth regarding Nvidia’s deep-learning super sampling (DLSS) and AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is taking on a human-versus-machine angle. To be more specific, AMD believes the humans responsible for FSR are sometimes more effective than the machine learning that Nvidia uses for DLSS.

AMD introduced FSR 2.0 last week, and it emphasized that it isn’t using any machine learning to accomplish its impressive upscaling results in games like Deathloop. Now, AMD is explaining a bit more about why it is using hand-coded algorithms as opposed to DLSS, which uses a method where a computer trains itself to recognize what a perfect frame should look like at the highest possible resolution.