Xbox Series X|S just gained this great feature, but you’ll have to wait to benefit from it
The Xbox Series X|S now supports several additional graphics features from AMD, bringing big benefits to gamers.
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What you need to know
Microsoft’sXbox Series XandXbox Series Sjust gained support for several new graphics features.AMD announcedthat select FidelityFX effects are now available in the latest Xbox Series X|S Game Development Kit (GDK). With support for the FidelityFX effects, game developers can add Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS), Variable Shading, and AMD’s ray-traced shadow Denoiser to games on the consoles.
The Xbox Series X and Series are built on the same AMD RDNA 2 architecture as theAMD Radeon RX 6000Series of graphics cards. FidelityFX is already available on some PCs, and AMD is bringing the technology over to Xbox consoles featuring the latest AMD hardware.
AMD GPUOpenexplains how Xbox consoles will benefit from the new support:
This news makes it even easier than before to write cross-platform games, with developers able to access select AMD FidelityFX effects with specific optimizations for Windows and Xbox. Game developers can now utilize further platform-specific optimizations with AMD FidelityFX, straight from the Xbox Series X|S Game Development Kit.
While this is a major addition to the Xbox consoles, gamers will have to wait to see the benefits of the FidelityFX support. Developing games takes time, as does integrating FidelityFX technology.
Despite the fact that the PS5 uses AMD hardware, there hasn’t been an announcement regarding FidelityFX technology on Sony’s console at this time.
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