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The PS5 Pro Proves AI Upscaling Is the Future

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PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) is Sony and AMD ’s solution for AI upscaling for the PS5 Pro and likely the PS6.

It uses machine learning tech to upscale games better than the traditional checkerboard rendering pioneered by the PS4 Pro.

The PS5 has not revealed what generation of graphics it's going to be using, so for all we know is still using the RDNA 2 architecture in the original PS5.

Since 2021 , AMD ’s graphics cards have been relying on FSR , or FidelityFX Super Resolution .

FSR uses data from previous frames, combined with motion data to calculate a higher resolution image.

The difference is that this calculation is done natively on the GPU itself and isn’t using neural hardware to calculate it.

As we get closer to RDNA 4 later this year or in 2025 , AMD will likely update FSR to use AI accelerators until the new hardware launches.