Monday, November 11th 2019
AMD Also Working to Bring Integer Scaling to Its Driver Suite
With NVIDIA and Intel already entrenched in the integer scaling field, which brings improved image quality to upscaled, pixel-art games, AMD was sure to follow. Vacuums in terms of feature set between different manufacturers of the same products aren't well looked at by consumers, and so AMD really has no choice but to advance into the integer scaling game as well. Recent Linux driver patches have been analyzed and found to contain multiple references to an integer scaling feature, which means that AMD is readying it for deployment and already on their way to work on its driver-level implementation.
Integer scaling works by looking at the base image and multiplying each pixel up to your monitor resolution, which brings in added sharpness without a single pixel's color being stretched over others. This way, a base 1080p presentation can easily be upscaled to a 4K resolution simply by syncing a given pixel's color information through 4 pixels - now you have a 4K screen that's rendering the same number of pixels as a 1080p one, with a block of four pixels acting as a single one. With integer scaling being the most requested feature on AMD's Adrenalin feedback page, so it seems pretty guaranteed we'll see the feature adopted eventually - perhaps even in AMD's own yearly big Adrenalin driver release, which could be dropping by this December, should history repeat itself.
Source:
PCGamesN
Integer scaling works by looking at the base image and multiplying each pixel up to your monitor resolution, which brings in added sharpness without a single pixel's color being stretched over others. This way, a base 1080p presentation can easily be upscaled to a 4K resolution simply by syncing a given pixel's color information through 4 pixels - now you have a 4K screen that's rendering the same number of pixels as a 1080p one, with a block of four pixels acting as a single one. With integer scaling being the most requested feature on AMD's Adrenalin feedback page, so it seems pretty guaranteed we'll see the feature adopted eventually - perhaps even in AMD's own yearly big Adrenalin driver release, which could be dropping by this December, should history repeat itself.
28 Comments on AMD Also Working to Bring Integer Scaling to Its Driver Suite
But I do want want Integer Scaling baked in. I tried it on a laptop with a i5 1035G4 and the driver scales the display area 1:1 pretty well, especially on software that doesn't support it natively (like older 4:3 games, tested with Diablo 2).
My RTX 2060:
Official support for a dead os?
If AMD release this for all GCN cards I'm back to red team.
More money in the driver on a technical level would be very apreciated. Zen2 is selling well, drop some of that money into driver development, please.
I can't wait for AMD's RTRT launch. :DBecause these games simply don't offer 4K resolution, so scaling from 1080p is necessary.
That said, the likely reason why Nvidia added integer scaling was not because of retro games, but because of RTRT even many 2080Ti owners would decide to fall back to 1080p.
And 1080p with RTX and integer scaling looks really well on 4K monitors.
AMD is going to add RTRT in the next generation, so it makes a lot of sense to bundle integer scaling as well.
Also that Lossless Scaling costs $4.99. It shouldn't be THAT hard to write free app. But since you are using paid MSI Afterburner alternative I guess it can't be helped.
Fuck them.
You know why people praise this? When AMD makes this its highly likely supported for all generations of card instead of tying this to latest generation of cards.