With this one small change, AMD Radeon GPUs could kill a big Nvidia advantage

AMD has pulled off a miraculous comeback with its new GPUs, with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT practically pointing and laughing at the RTX 5070 as it sputters with 12GB of VRAM. It’s not just the new GPUs that wowed me with this launch, though, but also the feature set with FSR 4, and AMD just needs to make one change to this feature set to knock one of Nvidia’s key competitive advantages out of the running - make FSR 4 an open standard that will run on Nvidia Tensor cores. Can it be done? After enjoying my first FSR 4 test at CES earlier in January, and being really impressed by the vast improvement in quality, my first question was whether you could run it on other GPUs. The answer, of course, was no, you need a Radeon RX 9070 or 9070 XT GPU to run it. However, after pressing further, AMD told me that there was no technical reason why you couldn’t run the tech itself on Nvidia Tensor cores, although last-gen AMD GPUs might struggle with it. It’s just a case of whether AMD wants to open it up or not. Continue reading With this one small change, AMD Radeon GPUs could kill a big Nvidia advantage MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, Best gaming CPU, Radeon RX 9070 XT review

Mar 13, 2025 - 19:39

With this one small change, AMD Radeon GPUs could kill a big Nvidia advantage

AMD has pulled off a miraculous comeback with its new GPUs, with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT practically pointing and laughing at the RTX 5070 as it sputters with 12GB of VRAM. It’s not just the new GPUs that wowed me with this launch, though, but also the feature set with FSR 4, and AMD just needs to make one change to this feature set to knock one of Nvidia’s key competitive advantages out of the running - make FSR 4 an open standard that will run on Nvidia Tensor cores.

Can it be done? After enjoying my first FSR 4 test at CES earlier in January, and being really impressed by the vast improvement in quality, my first question was whether you could run it on other GPUs. The answer, of course, was no, you need a Radeon RX 9070 or 9070 XT GPU to run it. However, after pressing further, AMD told me that there was no technical reason why you couldn’t run the tech itself on Nvidia Tensor cores, although last-gen AMD GPUs might struggle with it. It’s just a case of whether AMD wants to open it up or not.

Continue reading With this one small change, AMD Radeon GPUs could kill a big Nvidia advantage

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