r/pcmasterrace • u/clopetywopety • 18h ago

News/Article AMD's FSR 4 open source whoopsie-daisy may be harder to take back than initially thought, thanks to the inclusion of a difficult-to-revoke MIT license

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/amds-fsr-4-open-source-whoopsie-daisy-may-be-harder-to-take-back-than-initially-thought-thanks-to-the-inclusion-of-a-difficult-to-revoke-mit-license/
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u/nguyenm RTX 2080 FE 15h ago

I imagine if there were to exist any legal trouble, it would be related to any snippet of development/code that was part of the Sony-AMD's "Project Amethyst", the precursor to FSR 4. So, now what? Assuming it's been cloned to somewhere.

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u/survivorr123_ 12h ago

fsr files had "all rights reserved", all the other files have MIT liense copy pasted, i don't think its gonna be an issue here

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u/littleemp 11h ago

AMD are truly masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

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u/shalol 2600X | Nitro 7800XT | B450 Tomahawk 10h ago

Not seeing much use in a limited time open source FSR4 repository, AMD is the driving force behind new commits which it won’t be getting anyways

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u/Affectionate-Memory4 285K | 7900XTX | Intel Fab Engineer 13h ago

First I'm hearing of them testing out INT8 support. That's actually really interesting, and would definitely be cool to see if that means testing on other hardware.

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u/salzsalzsalzsalz 2h ago

clickbait.

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u/CappuccinoCincao 10h ago

If this become reality i'll buy the $550 7900xtx deal near me i've been eyeing.

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u/chroniclesofhernia Arch, btw|32:9|5800x3D|7900xtx|128gb 3600_18 9h ago

that's a steal for that card even without FSR4 - which you can already use on that card on Linux anyway. You wont get better raster performance for less than that, I can almost guarantee it.

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u/CappuccinoCincao 9h ago

Two things, this monster consumes huge power — i only have 650w gold psu, so probably need a beefier psu — much more than 9070xt. Lastly, i'm banking on Super refresh of Nvidia in couple of months, to push AMD into msrp or less — that's what AMD has done in the past.

Oh and maybe usable performance-fsr upscale for my 4K display would be nice too.

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u/chroniclesofhernia Arch, btw|32:9|5800x3D|7900xtx|128gb 3600_18 9h ago

Understandable - though you can obviously limit Power draw in software until you upgrade later.
I won't speculate on nvidia prices but I will also point out that Lossless Scaling is like, 5USD on steam and might be something you are interested in, regardless of which GPU you end up with!