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Over the last few months there have been several Amazon US listings for various Sapphire GPUs with big discounts, usually around 45-55% off~

These listings are scams, Sapphire have confirmed so via posts on their Twitter/X account.

Hi SAPPHIRE NATION, please be aware that there is a scam being run on Amazon US store showing large discounts on a few SAPPHIRE GPU products - Ships from/Sold by "an unverified seller's name" (this seller name may periodically change as well). This is NOT a verified seller.

We've been getting questions again recently regarding the scam sellers on Amazon. We want to once again remind everyone looking to purchase GPUs from Amazon. Please CHECK that the box specifying "Ships from / Sold by" both indicate http://Amazon.com and not another seller.

Please exercise due diligence and caution.

Hi All,

I need some help understanding FSR and how to use it.

Until recently, my only piece of gaming hardware was the Steam Deck. On this, the native (OS level) FSR easy to understand: drop the in-game resolution to something less than the display's native 1280×800 and enable FSR, which then upscales the image. This makes sense to me.

Recently, I got myself a dedicated gaming PC as well (running 6700 XT). I've been playing around with the FSR option using Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice as a benchmark, running DX11 mode and without ray tracing. I'm using a 1080p display.

From AMD's control software, a 'Radeon Super Resolution' (RSR) mode can be enabled, which I understand is basically the same FSR as is running natively on the Steam Deck. It does nothing if the in-game resolution is the same as the display's native resolution, but as soon as the in-game resolution is lowered, it applies spatial upscaling. So I drop my in-game resolution to 720p, enable RSR, and I can see the upscaling at work. This also makes sense.

Where I get confused is how in-game FSR fits into the picture. So Hellblade has native (in-game) FSR implemented. When running at 1080p resolution with no FSR and all settings maxed, I typically have close to 100% GPU utilization. Now, when I enable FSR in-game, still running at 1080p resolution, the GPU utilization drops to 75-80% with almost no visual impact (slight sharpening it seems, but wouldn't notice without side-by-side screenshots). Framerates are of course more stable with the lower utilization.

So I don't quite understand how this works. Does the game automatically render at a lower resolution (without having to adjust the in-game resolution) and upscales? Or why is it not necessary here to change the in-game resolution? Do all games implement native FSR in this manner?

Also, should the two be used mutually exclusively? I tried enabling both (so enabling SRS in AMD's control software, dropping in-game resolution to 720p, and enabling in-game FSR). It worked, but certainly looked strange; not sure how to explain, almost like this watery effect. I'm assuming in this instance upscaling was applied twice?

Anyway, some insight would be much appreciated!

This is my first Pc build that I ever built. It’s rocking the 7800x3D and the powercolor rx7900xtx hellhound spectral white

1. :)
2. my Pulse runs at ~3GHz when playing Dying Light 2 (1080p FSR2 Quality + Raytracing)
3. why does nobody talk about FSR2.1 looking better with RDNA3 than before? (had RX580 4G before)
4. dont mind my old R7 2700X with disabled PBO - my 5800X3D arrived today so i updated BIOS beforehand

~3GHz