Tuesday, June 27th 2023
AMD Announced as Starfield's Exclusive Partner on PC
AMD and Bethesda have today revealed that Starfield will be best experienced on a Ryzen processor and Radeon graphics card-equipped PC. Team Red has been announced as the giant open world game's official graphics and GPU partner, but its Xbox Series hardware also gets a couple of friendly shout-outs. Todd Howard, director and executive producer at Bethesda Game Studios, stated in the video presentation: "We have AMD engineers in our code base working on FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution) 2.0 image processing and upscaling and it looks incredible. You're going to get the benefits of that obviously on your PC but also on Xbox. We're super excited and can't wait to show everybody more."
Jack Huynh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of its Computing and Graphics Group at AMD, added: "Making this game even more special, is the close collaboration between Bethesda and AMD to unlock the full potential of Starfield. We have worked hand-in-hand with Bethesda Game Studios to optimize Starfield for both Xbox and PC with Ryzen 7000 series processors and Radeon 7000 series graphics. The optimizations both accelerate performance and enhance the quality of your gameplay using highly multi-threaded code that both Xbox and PC players will get to take advantage of."
AMD is proud to announce that we are Bethesda's exclusive PC partner for the next-generation role-playing game, Starfield. Watch this special announcement video to learn how AMD and Bethesda are working together to bring the galaxy to all players this September:
About Starfield
Starfield is the first new universe in over 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4. In this next generation role-playing game set amongst the stars, create any character you want and explore with unparalleled freedom as you embark on an epic journey to answer humanity's greatest mystery. In the year 2330, humanity has ventured beyond our solar system, settling new planets, and living as a spacefaring people. You will join Constellation - the last group of space explorers seeking rare artifacts throughout the galaxy - and navigate the vast expanse of space in Bethesda Game Studios' biggest and most ambitious game.
AMD is the exclusive PC partner for Starfield, promising to deliver the most complete PC gaming experience in the galaxy. We cannot wait to explore the universe with you this September. Ready to learn more?
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Jack Huynh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of its Computing and Graphics Group at AMD, added: "Making this game even more special, is the close collaboration between Bethesda and AMD to unlock the full potential of Starfield. We have worked hand-in-hand with Bethesda Game Studios to optimize Starfield for both Xbox and PC with Ryzen 7000 series processors and Radeon 7000 series graphics. The optimizations both accelerate performance and enhance the quality of your gameplay using highly multi-threaded code that both Xbox and PC players will get to take advantage of."
About Starfield
Starfield is the first new universe in over 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4. In this next generation role-playing game set amongst the stars, create any character you want and explore with unparalleled freedom as you embark on an epic journey to answer humanity's greatest mystery. In the year 2330, humanity has ventured beyond our solar system, settling new planets, and living as a spacefaring people. You will join Constellation - the last group of space explorers seeking rare artifacts throughout the galaxy - and navigate the vast expanse of space in Bethesda Game Studios' biggest and most ambitious game.
AMD is the exclusive PC partner for Starfield, promising to deliver the most complete PC gaming experience in the galaxy. We cannot wait to explore the universe with you this September. Ready to learn more?
226 Comments on AMD Announced as Starfield's Exclusive Partner on PC
JK lmao.
Let's hope that it's not actually a sh*tshow at launch!
Why would the do this when 70% of PC players are on NVIDIA and Intel systems. You are cutting more than half the market share from your player base by telling them unless they buy AMD their game will run bad. I am starting to get very tired of these exclusive bullshit releases.
Edit: This also means no DLSS or RTX for starfield. One of the aspects of this game I was most excited for was RTX and the visuals. But since I have a card made by a company with green letters I am not allowed to experience the game at "maximum overdrive super ultra mega resolution 9000 plus + Max" graphics.
Gears of War, Forza, Halo, Sea of Thieves, all run pretty decently on all hardware.
Only Redfall is pretty shite but that's bad on all hardware.
It's gonna run like shit for you then :D
Reality - We are going to dump the rendering onto two main cores and toss out a a few drawcalls and minor things like audio onto other cores as needed
Marketing muppets have to push the current-gen, highest-profit parts. It's not their job to tell the truth, and often it's what they're not saying that is most important.
Last? So that means John Connors fluffed his ultimate test 3 centuries back :slap:
JHH still selling those 5 slot monstrosities, huh :shadedshu:
You'll get official FSR 2.x support that offers good enough upscaling and probably you will get DLSS support either officially a few months latter, or unofficially the next day the game will be released in the form of a patch or something.
You have an RTX 3080, so you are slower than RX 7900XTX in RT, so probably you will get as many RT features as your card will be able to accelerate. In other words the RT effects will not kill your card and make you start thinking going for an RTX 4090.
I would like to hear your perspective about if this game was sponsored by Intel and Nvidia. Would that mean that owners of AMD CPUs and AMD GPUs would feel desperate and left out like you? What would have been your reaction then? What would you say to a GTX or Radeon owner if there was no FSR 2.x support?
www.dsogaming.com/news/amd-announced-that-it-will-be-starfields-exclusive-pc-partner/
wccftech.com/whats-up-with-the-missing-nvidia-dlss-support-in-amd-sponsored-fsr-titles/I'll stomach DLSS on the highest quality preset if I can't meet 60 fps at 4K, but I will never use FSR if it can be helped
AMD shinanigans aside, nVidia has needed (and continues to need) a kick up the arse like this. Thier hubris and customer unfriendly pricing will hopefully get knocked down a peg or two. And while I now own a 4080, FSR 2.0 is equally inferior to DLSS on AMD/Nvidia hardware.
As ALWAYS, wait for the indipendant reviews.
Either way its good to see honestly. I think if it starts to sit closer to the price consistently competition will be decent enough even I would have considered one for 800 ish usd nearly 300 usd less than decent models were when I picked up a 4090.
I think I could give up some RT and DLSS/FG for half the cost for sure.