AMD Expands Its FidelityFX Roster, Bringing Enhanced Visuals to Games at a Lower Performance Cost

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When AMD launched the Radeon RX 5700 series last year, it also introduced FidelityFX, an open-source toolkit of RDNA architecture-optimized effects that developers could implement with minimal performance overhead. Only Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS) was available at its inception, but now, four more awesome effects have joined the family: FidelityFX Screen Space Reflections, FidelityFX Ambient Occlusion, FidelityFX HDR Mapper, and FidelityFX Downsampler.



“In 2019 we released our first AMD FidelityFX feature, Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS),” wrote AMD. “This effect is now used in over 15 games to enable better visual sharpness with minimal artifacts, restoring detail lost after Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA) is...

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