FSR Upscaling Performance
On this page, we are going to deep dive into FSR Upscaling performance on the PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 GRE Video Card by looking at how upscaling scales in several games. The graphs below will show the native resolution performance, compared to FSR Quality, and FSR 3 Frame Generation where supported. We will test at 1440p raster and ray tracing, and 4K raster to see what performance FSR allows at 4K gaming.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
In this first graph in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, we are comparing the native 1440p resolution with FSR Quality mode and then with FSR 3 Quality + Frame Generation. We can see that just using FSR Quality improves performance by 44%, making the game much smoother above 80FPS. FSR 3 Frame Generation also adds more smoothness, and increases smoothness another 83%.
We wanted to see if Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora would be playable at 4K with Upscaling, and we can see that even with FSR Quality it’s still 51FPS, not exactly the smoothest. That is a 65% improvement in performance. Kicking on FSR 3 Frame Generation adds another 80% smoothness to the experience, but the base framerate is not above 60, so it isn’t a great experience. For this card, you’ll want to use the Balanced FSR setting to achieve a playable 4K experience.
Alan Wake 2
In Alan Wake 2 the game was already playable, but upscaling with FSR Quality improves performance 66%. What matters more though, is the RT performance with Upscaling, the game is actually playable now at 71FPS with Upscaling and RT, an increase of 65%.
At 4K, this game is not playable, but with FSR Quality it is, above 60FPS. That’s an increase of 72%.
Assassins’s Creed Mirage
Assassins’s Creed Mirage was already very playable, and interestingly FSR Quality doesn’t add a whole lot here, just an increase of 24%.
At 4K though, FSR greatly helps performance. It improves performance by 35% and that makes the game much smoother at 4K.
Starfield
Starfield was already playable at 1440p, and using 75% FSR performance improved by only 9%. You can achieve higher performance with FSR here, but you’ll have to lower the render resolution to 60% or 50%.
At 4K is where you really want FSR upscaling for this video card. The game is more playable even with just 75% render resolution with a 17% performance improvement.
Dying Light 2
In Dying Light 2 FSR improves performance by 26%. Where it really helps though is with Ray Tracing, this game is very playable with full Ray Tracing at 75FPS using FSR, an improvement of 70%.
At 4K you also need upscaling to be playable, and with FSR we see an improvement of 53%.
Cyberpunk 2077
In Cyberpunk 2077 FSR improves performance by 25%. Where it helps most though is with Ray Tracing, you need upscaling in order to make RT playable at 1440p. We see an improvement of 76%.
You will also need FSR upscaling to be playable at 4K, where we see a 39% improvement with FSR Quality upscaling.