Given AMD’s much, much more open approach to driver code, and their stated stance of ‘we will try to get FSR4 working on RDNA3, but no promises’…
It would seem to me that committing to an RDNA3 architecture could possibly indicate that progress on that front is going better than expected.
This is a complete guess, ie, speculation…
… but if Valve is going with RDNA3… this could indicate that they themselves are working with AMD to attempt to make… maybe call it FSR4.3 or something I dunno, basically, a version of, or operating mode for FSR4 that is better optimized to run on RDNA3 architecture.
Or at the very least, that Valve is in communication with AMD and AMD has privately told them that their own progress on FSR4 on RDNA3 is going better than they’ve yet publically announced.
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Also, it is very much worth pointing out that these GeekBench scores for ‘Fremont’… were done on Windows.
There is literally 0 chance Valve would release a Windows powered device, they have SteamOS… and properly configured linux distros are already generally outperforming Windows by roughly 5 to 10% fps, in games that … basically, came out more than 3 to 6 months ago and thus have decent Proton support.
Yes, cost is likely a very big factor.
But also, people are apparently unaware of this… but FSR4 works, sorta, on RDNA3.
https://www.techpowerup.com/338121/fsr-4-made-to-run-on-rdna-3-radeon-rx-7000-gpu-image-quality-gained-but-not-performance
Given AMD’s much, much more open approach to driver code, and their stated stance of ‘we will try to get FSR4 working on RDNA3, but no promises’…
It would seem to me that committing to an RDNA3 architecture could possibly indicate that progress on that front is going better than expected.
This is a complete guess, ie, speculation…
… but if Valve is going with RDNA3… this could indicate that they themselves are working with AMD to attempt to make… maybe call it FSR4.3 or something I dunno, basically, a version of, or operating mode for FSR4 that is better optimized to run on RDNA3 architecture.
Or at the very least, that Valve is in communication with AMD and AMD has privately told them that their own progress on FSR4 on RDNA3 is going better than they’ve yet publically announced.
…
Also, it is very much worth pointing out that these GeekBench scores for ‘Fremont’… were done on Windows.
There is literally 0 chance Valve would release a Windows powered device, they have SteamOS… and properly configured linux distros are already generally outperforming Windows by roughly 5 to 10% fps, in games that … basically, came out more than 3 to 6 months ago and thus have decent Proton support.
RDNA3 supporting FSR4 would be a bit win for everyone (even people not on RDNA3 GPUs; more collection against Nvidia benefits everyone).