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AMD Next-Gen Radeon GPUs To Feature Variable Rate Shading For Faster Frame Rates, May Launch With Upcoming RX Navi Graphics Cards
In a patent filed by AMD back in 2017, which was recently made public, it is stated that AMD was investing resources in developing advanced GPU shading technologies, namely, Variable Rate Shading (VRS)
The said feature isn’t something new in the industry as NVIDIA has already introduced Variable Rate Shading on their Turing architecture-based graphics cards.
In simple terms, VRS will apply full details on sections of the frames where most of the attention is focused while reducing the rendering load on other parts, thus increasing overall performance. This method specifically helps when running games at higher resolutions.
AMD is expected to launch their next-generation Radeon cards based on the Navi GPU architecture this year so we may very well see them featuring VRS.
The article "speculates" regarding AMD VRS. There is no solid leak yet. As noted, Nvidia already has a version of VRS in their latest cards and it increases FPS in supported games..
VRS raises FPS by selectively lowering image resolution. Some folks may not like the trade off.
