According to YouTuber Coreteks, AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) could be available in June. They claim to have spoken with a handful of game developers, who claim to already have some form of FSR already available. They further claim that FSR does not require dedicated hardware and may work with Nvidia graphics cards.

Coreteks outlines what could be some of the features of FSR around minute 5 of the video embedded below.

According to Coreteks, AMD uses algorithmic supersampling to upscale frames with low overhead. This is the mantra that AMD is aiming for with other features of the RDNA 2 architecture, such as the Infinity Cache.

This will be announced in June of this year, and if we had to guess, AMD's online event could be held in parallel with the E3 festivities. Again, nothing concrete, but not entirely unlikely.

Coreteks' video also has a bit of a question mark over this next feature, but they claim that FSR will work cross-platform, meaning that Nvidia graphics cards can also play. Who knows how compatible it will be with older GPUs. At the very least, it's not out of the realm of possibility. [It should also be remembered that FreeSync, built on Adaptive Sync, is an open invitation to Nvidia, and that Nvidia's inclusion of AMD (and VESA) is a recent development.

Just to be clear, AMD has not yet spoken publicly about FSR and has stated that they will be ready when they are ready. We cannot say with certainty whether any of the above is accurate or will be present in the first public release of FSR; we do know that AMD intends to release FSR sometime in 2021, and that there is a possibility that Nvidia's only thing we can be sure of is that it will offer some form of DLSS-like capability.

What performance will follow Nvidia's DLSS is another unknown now, but with the increased effectiveness of Nvidia's second major DLSS release, they have big shoes to fill. DLSS will make the best graphics cards today even better. better, with few downsides.

AMD, however, does not have to provide all the bells and whistles to compete with Nvidia's DLSS.

The DLSS has long enjoyed no real competition, and it only gains momentum with each new game added to the ecosystem and each new version of the DLSS. For those of us who use AMD's silicon, it's great to see alternatives come to market. It's great to see alternatives come to market, especially if they bridge the gap with current technology.